Seijo-Gakuen-mae — an upscale residential street of grand houses, grown up alongside Seijo Gakuen, home to quite a few celebrities too
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Seijo is an upscale residential area lined with mansions, also known for the number of celebrities living there; ginkgo trees are planted along the east-west stretch of Seijo-dori. In 2002, the Seijo Neighborhood Association drew up the Seijo Charter, aiming for "a town surrounded by greenery and spaciousness, with an environment like a park". The charter asks everyone to preserve hedges and the trees in their gardens, keep low-rise housing, and stop lots from being subdivided smaller and smaller.
Setagaya City registered it as a resident townscape-building agreement, covering Seijo 1-chome through 9-chome.
Looking at our street photos, greenery ranks 79th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the top-ranking item for this neighborhood.
Seijo has many schools, led by Seijo Gakuen, and on weekday mornings the station fills with students from each school. The railway at Seijo-Gakuen-mae Station runs through a cutting dug below ground level, and the station building houses the Seijo Corty shopping complex.
Out the west exit is Seijo Rokken-dori, and heading south out of this neighborhood brings you to Toho's film studio.
Convenience of daily life ranks 340th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, with everyday shopping and medical care also near the bottom.
To the west of Seijo is the Kokubunji Escarpment, sandwiched between the Sengawa and Nogawa rivers. The charter also restricts building basements along the escarpment.
In 1925, Seijo Gakuen moved to what was then Kinuta Village, and that same year the land was leveled and school buildings were built; this residential area came along with the school.
In 1927, the Odakyu line opened, and the station was secured through the efforts of the then-principal Obara Kuniyoshi. That same year, about 40 houses were completed and residents began moving in.
In the early days, writers such as Yanagita Kunio moved in, and for a time it resembled a village of literary figures. In 1931, PCL, the predecessor of Toho's Kinuta Studio, was established south of the station, and people from the film and TV industry moved in as well.
The street rules around the station were set in 2001 and 2003, and more than twenty years later the City office is now reviewing and revising them. The trigger was a draft revision proposed by the residents' council, covering issues such as whether the shops form a continuous row and how to revitalize the street.
Since June 2025, six meetings have been held, discussing building height, signboard colors, minimum lot size, and restrictions on walls and fences. No date has been set yet for finalizing the rules.
Compared with the 395 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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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