Numabukuro station's shopping street uses a frog as its symbol, said to come from red frogs local farmers once paid as tribute to the shogunate
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The shopping street in front of Numabukuro Station is called the Numabukuro Shinkokai, running north from the station, and its shops use frogs as their symbol. The story goes back to the Edo period: farmers here used to catch red frogs from the Myoshoji river and hand them over to the shogunate as an ingredient for Chinese medicine.
Step out of the shopping street and it's all housing, stretching from the lowland by the Myoshoji river all the way up to the high ground around Shin-Ome Kaido. The district plan drawn up in 2018 states that both the east and west sides along this shopping street are quiet residential areas.
Public transit ranks 180th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, landing in the middle, but it's the highest-ranked category for this neighborhood. The station has ticket gates on both its north and south sides, open from the first train to the last.
Within Numabukuro town there are several temples and shrines, including Meiji-ji, Zenjo-in, and Hikawa Shrine.
Going by our street photos, the neighborhood environment ranks 363rd among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and sidewalks rank 351st. Even though there's a shopping street right in front of the station, daily shopping only ranks 285th.
Buses on the shopping street run in one direction only; from in front of the station you can only catch buses heading toward Nakano. The station has a passing track, so local trains that stop at every station wait 2 to 4 minutes when faster trains pass through.
The undergrounding project is still underway: since 2018 the overpass bridge has been out of use, replaced by a temporary underground passage.
The Kamakura Ozoshi, written in the Muromachi period, already records Ota Dokan fighting in the area around Egotahara and Numabukuro. In the Edo period, this area was split into Kami-Numabukuro village and Shimo-Numabukuro village.
In the Taisho era a bus road was built, and in the early Showa era the Seibu Railway opened, with rows of housing following along in Numabukuro. The station opened in 1927, and in 1955 Seibu Railway's first express passing track was added.
The roughly 2.4-kilometer stretch of the Seibu Shinjuku Line between Nakai and Nogata is being put underground, with the project running through March 2034; once complete, it will eliminate 7 railway crossings. Numabukuro and Arai-Yakushimae will become underground stations, with elevators and escalators installed on every platform.
The shopping street itself is also being widened to 14 meters, running about 560 meters in total; by the end of 2025 only about half the needed land had been acquired. The north section will be done first, while the south section and the roughly 2,800-square-meter traffic plaza will wait until after the undergrounding is finished; the project period has already been extended to March 2037.
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Hospitals with inpatient beds (2020 data), public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area, high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores. Many Tokyo junior high students attend private schools, so junior high catchments are only a guide.
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