Tucked-away residential lanes behind Shibuya, walk east and you're at Yoyogi Park
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The street running through Tomigaya and Kamiyama-cho (and on to Shoto, which is outside this neighborhood) has been known since the 2000s as Oku-Shibuya, and more visitors have been coming here. That said, most of Tomigaya is residential, with detached houses on the side streets; the buildings and apartments are along the main roads.
Coming out of Yoyogi-Koen Station and heading east brings you to Yoyogi Park, though the park itself is outside this neighborhood. The fountain in the central pond is lit up at night; next door, Meiji Shrine has set opening and closing hours, but this park is actually accessible at night.
The main street, Tomigaya 1-chome-dori, is affectionately called Tomihachi-dori; the shopping association's mascot is a dog named Tomihachi. Heading south into Kamiyama-cho, the same street becomes Kamiyama-dori.
In 2020, more than six in ten households in this neighborhood were single-person households, about the same as Shibuya City as a whole. People in their thirties and forties make up about thirty-six percent, and the proportion of children is also slightly higher than the City average.
Greenery ranks 87th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and to the east it's right next to the 54-hectare Yoyogi Park.
To the north is Yoyogi-Hachiman Station on the Odakyu Line; after the new station building opened in 2019, you can walk straight out of the ticket gates onto Yamate-dori. The Tomigaya intersection has many buses coming from Shibuya Station, with especially frequent services to Nakano and Sasazuka.
The pedestrian overpass at the intersection has elevators on all four corners, so you don't need to carry a stroller up and down. Tomigaya has four shopping associations in total, around the station, along the main street, and around the university area.
The main street is one-way and has buses running on it, but there's no sidewalk, so pedestrians and vehicles have to give way to each other. Tomigaya 2-chome slopes upward heading south the whole way, and Inokashira-dori is also a steep slope even past the overpass.
Healthcare ranks 198th.
The name Tomigaya comes from a valley (tani/ya), where the Udagawa and Kohonegawa used to meet; both rivers are now covered over. The old course of the Udagawa has been turned into the Udagawa Promenade, which runs all the way from beside Inokashira-dori to the south end of Kamiyama-cho.
The Chiyoda Line was extended here in 1972, and Yoyogi-Koen Station served as the terminus for six years before the line was extended to Yoyogi-Uehara in 1978. The Tokai University Shibuya Campus in Tomigaya 2-chome has buildings designed by the architect Yamada Mamoru.
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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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