Tokyo Metro exit opens right into the Todai campus, with Nishikata next door known as the "scholars' town"
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Exit 1 of Todaimae Station on the Namboku Line opens right into the campus of the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Agriculture. Step out of the campus, and Nishikata, close to the University of Tokyo, is a "scholars' town" where academics gathered - physicist Nagaoka Hantaro and botanist Makino Tomitaro both lived here.
The campus sits in Yayoi 1-chome, almost the whole of which is campus grounds. Mukogaoka is mainly residential, with several schools - a university, a senior high school, and a junior high school.
Public transit ranks 26th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest ranking for this neighborhood; healthcare also ranks 51st. Back at that campus by Exit 1, just inside the main gate of the Faculty of Agriculture on the left, stands a statue of the reunion between Dr. Ueno Eizaburo and the loyal dog Hachiko. Hachiko originally was this Faculty of Agriculture professor's dog.
On the Mukogaoka side of the town there are nine temples, and Natsume Soseki also lived in Mukogaoka. Judging from our street photos, the buildings rank 57th.
In 2020, about 179 people lived per hectare in this neighborhood. Everyday shopping ranks 98th; sidewalks rank 170th, the weakest ranking for this neighborhood.
The station within this neighborhood is Todaimae Station on the Namboku Line. Nishikata has slopes like Shinzaka, with up-and-down terrain.
In the mid-to-late Edo period, Nishikata was the residence of the Abe family, lords of the Fukuyama domain. In 1872, the area on either side of the old Nakasendo (today's Hongo-dori) was organized into towns, and the section on the west side of the street was named Nishikata-cho.
In 1875, Seishi Elementary School opened on the grounds of the Fukuyama domain's middle residence, its name sharing the same origin as the Fukuyama domain's domain school, Seishikan. From the Meiji era into the early Showa period, the Abe family itself developed the old land into a residential area, and as a result the whole area became "Nishikata-cho 10-banchi".
The sub-numbers under 10-banchi became too chaotic, and for a time informal addresses were even assigned using iroha (the traditional Japanese ordering of letters). Nishikata escaped both the Great Kanto Earthquake and the Tokyo air raids, but its Showa-era look is gradually disappearing.
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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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