Tsurukawa: an old hillside farming village turned leafy residential area, the Meiji-era house and garden by the station just opened to the public
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Before the Pacific War began, Tsurukawa Village was a farming community scattered with thatched-roof farmhouses along the hills. Tsurukawa Kagoyama-en, in 2-chome, is just a 4-minute walk from the north exit. The site was originally a moxibustion clinic founded in 1794; the city took over the main house and garden built in 1906, and opened it to the public in 2025.
Now this area has become a residential district. Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 82nd among Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, the highest-ranked category for this neighborhood. Tsurukawa 3- through 5-chome have no street photos yet, so the street-photo rankings reflect only the rest of the neighborhood. In 2020, about 59% of households in this neighborhood owned their own home, about the same as Machida City as a whole.
The north, east, and south sides of Nogaya 1-chome through 7-chome all border Kawasaki City in Kanagawa Prefecture. Across the river from Tsurukawa Station is Asao Ward, Kawasaki City, and residents of both cities board trains at this station.
The streets are also clean, ranking 122nd for cleanliness.
Neither the Rapid Express nor the Express stops at Tsurukawa, so public transit ranks only 332nd among 395 neighborhoods. During the morning rush, many Commuter Semi Express and Local trains stop at this station to let the Rapid Express pass first.
There are a few supermarkets in front of the station, but daily shopping ranks only 369th. North of the station, Tsurukawa Kaido has heavy traffic and a major intersection nearby, so it's regularly congested.
In 1889, Nogaya merged with seven neighboring villages; since all eight villages lay within the Tsurumi River basin, the combined village was named Tsurukawa. During the war, Shirasu Jiro and his wife Shirasu Masako moved into a thatched-roof farmhouse in Nogaya 7-chome and lived by farming the land themselves.
That farmhouse is Buaiso; the name refers to the site's location on the border between the old provinces of Musashi and Sagami, and is also a pun on the Japanese words for "cold and unwelcoming". In 1958, Tsurukawa Village was merged into Machida City, and Buaiso opened to visitors in 2001.
Machida City is rebuilding Tsurukawa Station's station building so that it straddles the tracks, and is also building a roughly 120-meter north-south connecting passage alongside it. Work on the connecting passage is scheduled through fiscal year 2027, and the new station building through fiscal year 2028. The south exit's transit plaza and access roads are scheduled to open in March 2030.
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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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