A residential area on the plateau above the bluff, a big danchi complex below along the Nogawa, and wild birds often in view
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Tsutsujigaoka is mostly on the plateau above the Kokubunji escarpment, so the "hill" (oka) in the name is real. Below the escarpment, the banks of the Nogawa River are where the lowland actually is. South of the station there's a lot of greenery, and since it's close to the Nogawa, you often see wild birds.
Along the Nogawa is a large public housing complex called Jindai Danchi, part of which extends into Komae City. Development in front of the south exit lagged behind the north exit; it originally faced ueki-batake (fields for cultivating garden trees) and orchards. Road improvements at the south exit started in 2018, and the widening of the station-front roundabout was still under construction in 2022.
The melody that plays when trains pull into the station is the children's song Omoide no Album. The composer, Honda Tetsumaro, was the 52nd head priest of Jorakuin, a temple about a 4-minute walk from the south exit, and a monument to the song stands on the temple grounds.
For greenery, it ranks 76th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking item for this neighborhood. On the north exit side, there's a row of buildings between the tracks and Koshu Kaido, with an Ozeki supermarket, drugstores, and cram schools on the lower floors. The shopping association around the station is the shopping street with the most stores in Chofu City.
From the north exit there are buses to Jindaiji and Jindai Botanical Park, both outside the neighborhood. Express trains on the Keio Line stop at this station, and inbound trains go to Shinjuku, also running through to the Toei Shinjuku Line.
There are 5 level crossings between the station and the Shibasaki/Sengawa area, and during peak hours the barriers are down for 44 to 54 minutes out of every hour. Chofu City plans to elevate the Keio Line section between Sengawa and Kokuryo; approval from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism only came in April 2026, and it's now moving into construction preparation. No completion year has been announced yet.
For everyday shopping, it ranks 333rd out of 395 neighborhoods. Based on our street photos, buildings rank 325th, placing it in the lower half.
This area was originally called Kaneko; when the station opened on Koshu Kaido in 1913 it was named Kaneko Station, and it wasn't moved to its current location until 1927. In 1957, Keio Teito Electric Railway developed housing nearby and renamed the station Tsutsujigaoka after the development project, also avoiding a name clash with Kaneko Station on the Hachiko Line.
The town names later followed suit, changing to Higashi-Tsutsujigaoka and Nishi-Tsutsujigaoka, and with that, the Kaneko place name, traceable back over 800 years, disappeared. Jorakuin is also an import: it was originally in Ueno, and after burning down in the 1945 Tokyo air raids, it moved here after the war.
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