FC Tokyo's cheer song plays on the platform, and outside the station are residential streets between pear orchards and vineyards
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On the platform toward Shinjuku, the approaching-train melody is FC Tokyo's cheer song "You'll Never Walk Alone". The opposite direction plays another cheer song, "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie"; both were changed in 2018. Right outside the station are Tobitakyu 1-chome through 3-chome, where houses are interspersed with farmland, dotted with vineyards and pear orchards.
It's a 5-minute walk from the station to Ajinomoto Stadium, home ground of FC Tokyo and Tokyo Verdy, but it's located in Nishimachi toward the north exit, outside the neighborhood. There's a blueberry farm in 2-chome, open for picking in summer (mid-July to the end of August).
In 2020, residents of this neighborhood skewed young, at about 103 people per hectare. More than half of households are single-person households, nearly 60% of households are in private rentals, and people in their 20s and 30s make up nearly 30%; all three figures are higher than in both Chofu and Fuchu.
From our street photos, buildings rank 114th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking item for this neighborhood. Public transit ranks 143rd, in the middle; normally only Local trains stop here, with Rapid trains added during certain hours.
On days when there are events at the stadium, Special Express and Express trains make temporary stops, and after events end there are also special trains departing from this station toward Shinjuku. For grocery shopping, there's a Maruetsu supermarket beside the Old Koshu Kaido in Tobitakyu 1-chome.
Healthcare ranks 343rd out of 395 neighborhoods, the lowest-ranking item for this neighborhood; everyday shopping ranks only 341st. The stadium holds about 48,000 people, and on days with games or concerts, the station is the main exit for the crowd leaving. The neighboring Nishi-Chofu Station is only 700 meters away; walking there after an event to catch a train lets you avoid the crowds, though that station only stops Local and Rapid trains.
There are two theories about the origin of the place name: one says that in the manor era, this was farmland divided off by a lord surnamed Tobita. The other says it was farmland belonging to Hidenin, a facility in Musashi Province that took in the poor and sick in ancient times, called "Hidenkyu," which later came to be written as Tobitakyu.
In the Edo period, the Koshu Kaido, an old pilgrimage road to Mt. Fuji, and a route to Tokorozawa all passed through this area. The station opened in 1916.
The turnaround point for the marathon at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was along the Koshu Kaido, just outside the neighborhood's northern boundary. Before the stadium opened in March 2001, the station was rebuilt with a station building spanning the tracks, and the platforms were widened to handle the crowds leaving after events.
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