Home to Tokyo Women's Medical University and the Aikikai Hombu Dojo, and once the site of Fuji TV too
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Tokyo Women's Medical University's main campus is in Kawadacho, and its affiliated hospital's West Building and Diabetes Center are across the street in Wakamatsucho. Wakamatsucho is also home to the headquarters dojo of Aikikai, the largest aikido organization, which began here in 1931 as the Kobukan dojo.
This neighborhood covers three towns: Wakamatsucho, Yochomachi, and Kawadacho, where the station is located. Wakamatsucho is mainly residential, with quite a few hospitals and government offices as well.
When addresses were being reorganized in 1986, Yochomachi was originally going to be renamed "Higashi-Shinjuku," but residents started a movement to keep the old name. In 2020 these three towns had a combined population of about 13,000, with children under fifteen making up about 12%, a higher share than Shinjuku City as a whole.
Healthcare ranks 9th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest category for this neighborhood. The station is served by only one line, the Oedo Line, so public transit still ranks 28th. The neighboring stations on either side are Ushigome-Yanagicho, about 600 meters away, and Higashi-Shinjuku, about one kilometer away.
Yochomachi has a shrine called Nukebenten, with an approach path you can walk straight through from north to south.
In 2020, this neighborhood had a population density of about 247 people per hectare. Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 268th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest category for this neighborhood; cleanliness ranks 245th, also in the bottom half.
The name "Wakamatsu" dates to the Edo period, when this area had to present small pine trees to the shogun's family for New Year's; in 1705 it came under the jurisdiction of the Edo machi-bugyo (town magistrate), becoming Ushigome Wakamatsucho. Yochomachi was originally a group residence (kumiyashiki) for hatamoto retainers, and because it had four town blocks, it was formerly called Higashi-Okubo Yonchome.
When the towns were merged in 1872, the character for "four" (yon or shi) was considered unlucky, so it was changed to Okubo Yochomachi; in 1911 it was finally named Yochomachi, and both Tsubouchi Shoyo and Nagai Kafu once lived here. The name Kawadacho comes from a small local place name in Ushigome village, "Kawadakubo"; in 1959 Fuji Television began broadcasting here.
When the Oedo Line opened in 2000, Tokyo originally planned to use "Wakamatsucho" as a tentative station name. After Fuji Television moved away in 1997, the shopping street merchants in Kawadacho worried about decline, so "Kawada" was added to the station name as well.
Tokyo is widening an 860-meter stretch of Radial Route No. 25 between Shinjuku 7-chome and Haramachi 3-chome into a four-lane road 30 meters wide. Once completed, it's expected to make access to the Women's Medical University hospital and the station more convenient. The project approval period runs until March 31, 2027, and as of the end of fiscal year 2023, about 85% of the needed land had been acquired.
Compared with the 395 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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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