Children walk to school, adults walk to the station — Tama Center's new town separates footpaths from roads on different levels
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Tama Center is the center of the Tama New Town, with pedestrian paths and roadways separated on different levels, originally designed so people could walk from home to the station, parks, and schools without crossing roads. Tama Center Station is actually three stations—Keio, Odakyu, and the monorail—and Parthenon Dori, leading to Parthenon Tama, is a pedestrian-only street.
The New Town was a residential city developed on the hills starting in the 1960s to address Tokyo's housing shortage. In the area around Tama Center Station as designated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, residents under 15 made up about 13.1% in 2024, higher than the 10.4% for Tama City as a whole. Those 65 and over made up about 17.7%, compared to nearly 30% for Tama City as a whole.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 4th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the best of the seven categories; cleanliness ranks 29th. Climbing the grand staircase from Parthenon Tama brings you to Tama Central Park, with its large pond and lawns.
The park fully reopened in April 2025 after renovation, with a new café added; the city's Central Library was also completed in 2024. Every winter, about 400,000 lights are strung along Parthenon Dori, lighting the way all the way to the park.
Daily shopping ranks 347th and medical care ranks 333rd, the two weakest of the seven categories. The monorail station is about 200 meters from the Keio and Odakyu stations, connected by an elevated pedestrian deck. The connecting walkway has no roof; on rainy days, taking the detour through the bus terminal below the deck means a shorter distance exposed to rain, but requires using stairs.
Before development, this was a farming village in the hills and valleys; during development, the winding Kotta River was straightened and the hills leveled before the station was built. Keio opened first in 1974, Odakyu followed the next year, and the monorail connected in 2000.
About half a century after opening, the Keio Plaza Hotel Tama closed, and the Tama Art University Museum also moved out of the city. In 2025, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government brought together government officials, local businesses, railway operators, landowners, and scholars to form a reconstruction council.
In March 2026, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government released a future vision for Tama Center, pointing out that there are no facilities to shield against sun or rain in front of the station or on the elevated pedestrian deck. The current plan envisions creating walking spaces that are comfortable even in summer and rain by around 2035; the redevelopment of the station plaza is also planned to go through review first, before moving into project implementation.
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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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