Trains leave the platform to the Galaxy Express 999 theme, and the Conductor statue is the honorary stationmaster
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On the platform at Oizumi-gakuen Station, the theme song from Galaxy Express 999 plays when trains depart. Inside the ticket gates stands a statue of the Conductor character from the show, who serves as the station's honorary stationmaster. Once you step outside, the streets of Higashi-Oizumi 3-chome are laid out in a grid, a pattern created in 1941 when officers' housing was built for the faculty of the Army Preparatory Officer Academy.
This station is busy: in fiscal 2024 about 82,000 passengers boarded and alighted here each day, the most of any Seibu station without a transfer line. The north exit's pedestrian bridge, Oizumi Anime Gate, opened in 2015 and connects directly into a redevelopment building that houses a shopping mall and high-rise apartments.
On the south exit side there's a shopping center and a UR high-rise housing complex, as well as the elementary school and the international secondary school affiliated with Tokyo Gakugei University.
Based on our street photos, among Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, architecture ranks 156th and cleanliness ranks 160th, both in the middle of the pack.
There's only one rail line, so other directions rely on buses: from the south exit, Seibu Bus routes run to Kichijoji Station, Nishi-Ogikubo Station, and Asagaya Station, while buses from the north exit go to Narimasu Station and Asaka Station. Commuter-type trains such as the Commuter Semi Express stop at this station in the morning.
Public transit ranks 347th among 395 neighborhoods, near the bottom. The station is served by only one line, the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, so there's no second railway into the city as a backup. Even though there are shopping centers on both sides of the station, day-to-day shopping ranks only 264th among 395 neighborhoods.
Higashi-Oizumi originally belonged to Doshida Village, which merged into Oizumi Village in 1891. When the station opened in 1924 it was called Higashi-Oizumi Station; the area around it was developed as an academic town by Hakone Land (the company that was the origin of the Seibu Group), but no university was ever attracted there.
In 1933 the station was renamed Oizumi-gakuen Station, so the word "gakuen" (academic campus) survived only in the station's name. Those officers' houses had no running water at the time, so residents formed their own water-supply group, more than 30 years ahead of the Tokyo Metropolitan Waterworks Bureau's supply in 1973. That group, the Oizumi Meisuikai, still exists today.
Two sections of urban planning roads are planned for the south side of the station: Hojo No. 135 (Auxiliary Line 135), about 1.2 kilometers, and Hojo No. 232 (Auxiliary Line 232), about 510 meters. Surveying will be done first in fiscal 2025 and 2026, with project approval expected to begin in fiscal 2027.
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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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