Toritsu-Daigaku: the university moved away but the name stayed, two covered rivers now cherry-tree greenways
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The covered main stream of the Nomigawa River and its Kakinokizaka branch stream meet at the north exit of Toritsu-Daigaku Station, and both have been turned into green promenades. The main stream promenade is about 3 kilometers long, and the branch stream promenade is about 2 kilometers long, lined with cherry blossoms along the way in spring.
Normally this is a walking path, and also a place where neighborhood children play. Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 81st out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking item for this neighborhood. The station is served only by the Toyoko Line, and inbound trains go directly to Shibuya.
Jo'enji Temple and Tokoji Temple stand side by side in Yakumo 1-chome, each with a large ginkgo tree. The one at Jo'enji is the largest ginkgo tree in Meguro City. The one in front of Tokoji's main hall is a male tree, and legend has it that its roots are connected to the one at Jo'enji, giving rise to the story of the "husband-and-wife ginkgo trees".
The former campus of Toritsu-Daigaku is now a Meguro City community campus. Meguro Persimmon Hall has large and small halls and rehearsal rooms, and the Yakumo Central Library and Yakumo Gymnasium are in the same building. At Ryugenji Temple in Nakane 2-chome, ginkgo and zelkova trees stand side by side on the grounds, keeping something of the old Musashino landscape.
Daily shopping ranks 280th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the lowest-ranking item for this neighborhood; public transit ranks 256th. In 2020, about 178 people lived per hectare in this neighborhood.
The Toyoko Line's Limited Express, Commuter Limited Express, and Express trains don't stop at this station — only Local trains do. Part of the green promenade near the station is used by Meguro City as a bicycle parking area.
When the station opened in 1927, it was called Kakinokizaka Station, named after a local place name. In 1930, Goto Keita of the Tokyo-Yokohama Electric Railway moved the Furitsu Koto Gakko from Nagatacho to what is now Yakumo 1-chome, and the following year the station was renamed Furitsu Koto-mae.
After that, the school changed its name, and the station name kept changing along with it, finally settling on Toritsu-Daigaku in 1952. In 1991, the university moved to Minami-Osawa in Hachioji because its campus was too small.
But the station name stayed. In 1999, Tokyu asked residents whether to change the name; 630 voted in favor and 436 against, which didn't reach the two-thirds threshold, so it wasn't changed.
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