Edo's pilgrimage path became Nabeyoko, and in August the whole street dances Awa Odori
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Nabeya-yokocho is a north-south shopping street; in the early Edo period it was the road people walked to visit Myohoji Temple. Shin-nakano Station on the Marunouchi Line is near where this street meets Ome Kaido, with Exits 3 and 4 on the Nabeyoko side. From this station it's three stops to Shinjuku, no transfer needed.
In 2020, the 5 chome that make up this neighborhood had a population of about 30,700. Nearly seven in ten households were single-person households, higher than the Nakano City average as a whole; over six in ten homes were rented.
Every year on the first weekend of August, the whole of Nabeyoko is closed to traffic and turned into a pedestrian zone, with Awa Odori dance and Okinawan Eisa dance as the main attractions. About 50,000 to 60,000 people come each year.
For everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 30th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest ranking of all categories here. On the side of Exits 3 and 4 there's the Nabeyoko shopping street and a supermarket, while the east side of the station has mostly small and mid-sized shops.
Public transit ranks 49th. This station is on the Marunouchi Line, and the branch line to Honancho splits off at the next station, Nakano-sakaue.
Mid-rise buildings are dense around the station, and in 2020 this neighborhood had a population density of about 300 people per hectare. From our street photos, sidewalks rank 286th out of 395 neighborhoods, a lower ranking among the streetscape categories.
Greenery ranks 291st, also in the lower range. Sugiyama Park on the side of Exits 1 and 2 is also only about 1,300 square meters.
The name "Nabeya" comes from a teahouse along the pilgrimage road that people used as a landmark to find their way. After the Meiji era, it became the road connecting Nakano Station and Ome Kaido, and grew lively.
Around the same time, the land that is now Sugiyama Park was the residence of Sugiyama, a Meiji-era businessman. After his daughter died in 1908 and his wife in 1925, he donated the land to what was then Nakano Town. In March 1934, the City of Tokyo opened Sugiyama Park there.
Shin-nakano Station opened in 1961, when it was the terminus of the Eidan Ogikubo Line, with the extension to Minami-asagaya following that same November. After the subway opened and the Toden Suginami Line was discontinued, Nabeyoko's liveliness faded a little. In a novel about the subway by Asada Jiro, the protagonist travels through time at this station, back to the old station building around the time of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
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