Sengawa, with a music university and a small theater, where the shopping street often holds events with both
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This neighborhood has a music university and a small theater. In Wakabacho 1-chome, Toho Gakuen School of Music only has a Faculty of Music and a Graduate School of Music, and its graduates include Ozawa Seiji. In Sengawacho 1-chome, Sengawa Theater, designed by Ando Tadao, has only 121 seats and often co-hosts events with the shopping street and local schools.
The station's ticket gates are on the south side, and that side has grown into a shopping street. People coming by bus from Wakabacho get off at the "Sengawa Ekiiriguchi" stop, then still have to walk through a stretch of shopping street before reaching the station.
Once you board, the Keio Line heads inbound toward Meidaimae and Sasazuka, all the way to Shinjuku. Both the Rapid and the Semi Express stop at this station, and in fiscal 2025 it handled about 72,000 boardings and alightings a day.
Looking at our street photos, cleanliness ranks 87th among Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, the highest-ranked item for this neighborhood.
Wakabacho 1-chome is also home to Saneatsu Memorial Park, originally the home of the writer Mushanokoji Saneatsu in his later years. After he passed away, his family donated the residence and garden to Chofu City, and the park opened in 1978.
Neither the Special Express nor the Express stops at this station, and public transit ranks 310th, the weakest item for this neighborhood. Daily shopping ranks 307th, toward the lower end.
The roads around the station are mostly narrow. Metropolitan Road 118, at the southern edge of Sengawacho where it borders Wakabacho, has heavy traffic congestion, and bus delays are an almost daily occurrence.
The name Sengawacho comes from the Sengawa River, which flows past the north end of the town. When the station opened in 1913 it was called Shimosengawa, and it wasn't changed to Sengawa until 1917. After the Rapid began stopping here in 2001, the number of passengers using the station increased noticeably.
North of the station used to be Kewpie's Sengawa plant, which closed in 2011 and was turned into a research and visitor facility. Since 2018, the train arrival melody has been "Toy Soldiers' March" from Kewpie's cooking program, because of this connection.
The roughly 7.2-kilometer stretch of the Keio Line between Sasazuka Station and Sengawa Station is being elevated, with the project running until March 2031. Once completed, 25 railroad crossings will be removed.
Sengawa Station itself is not among the seven stations being elevated, so the station building itself will not be raised.
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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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