Where the Myoshoji River runs through the residential streets, and come late summer the mikoshi of Saginomiya Hachiman Festival wind through every block
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Saginomiya area has shops around the station, with the rest mostly residential land. The Myoshoji River crosses through the Shirasagi area south of Saginomiya Station, and you can take a walk along the riverbank near Kanran Bridge. Every year on a weekend in the latter half of August, Saginomiya Hachiman Shrine holds its annual festival, with each town carrying mikoshi around within its own town.
Kanran Bridge, whose name means "olive," takes its name from Shodoshima Island: Tsuboi Sakae, who wrote "Twenty-Four Eyes," used to live nearby, and the novel is set on Shodoshima. On the Seibu Shinjuku Line, Toritsu-Kasei and Saginomiya are only 500 meters apart - you can see one platform from the other.
The Toritsu-Kasei Shopping Street runs north-south from the railway crossing on the west side of the station, and a statue of the mascot Kasei-chan stands along the street. The character was designed by manga artist Chiba Tetsuya when the streetlights and pavement were renewed in 2002.
For daily shopping, it ranks 193rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest category for this neighborhood. Saginomiya Station is served by Express trains, and the bus in front of the station on Nakasugi-dori runs north to Nerima and south to Ogikubo.
The railway crossing next to Toritsu-Kasei Station often stays closed for long stretches from evening into the night.
Based on our street photos, sidewalks rank 373rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo. Healthcare ranks 277th, also in the lower range.
The place name is said to come from Saginomiya Hachiman Shrine: Minamoto no Yoriyoshi built the shrine here in 1064, and because many herons (sagi) lived on the grounds, locals called it "Saginomiya Daimyojin". The Saginomiya-bayashi music that accompanies the festival is registered as an intangible folk cultural property of Nakano City.
Toritsu-Kasei Station opened in 1937 as "Furitsu-Kasei," built in response to a petition from parents of the nearby home economics girls' school, and the name was changed to its current form in 1943. The school later changed its name, and Seibu once proposed renaming the station Higashi-Saginomiya, but the shopping street in front of the station had already taken the name "Kasei," and local attachment to it meant the station name was kept.
In 2005, localized torrential rain caused flooding along the Myoshoji River. Afterward, land freed up by the redevelopment of Toei public housing was used to build the Saginomiya flood-control reservoir, completed in 2013, with Shirasagi Seseragi Park on top.
As of December 2024, both stations fall within the stretch covered by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Nogata-Iogi railway grade-separation project. The section is about 3.1 kilometers long, and once complete, it is expected to eliminate 13 railway crossings. Whether the line will go elevated or underground is still under review, and no completion year has been set yet.
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