Residential lanes turned into a path to the art museum, waka verses carved into the tiles
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The Yoga Promenade, which runs from Yoga Station toward Kinuta Park, wasn't a newly built path on purchased land—it was already the residential area's everyday street. When it was redone, Awaji tiles were laid down, engraved with poems from the Hyakunin Isshu.
Only the first stretch of the promenade falls within this neighborhood. Along the whole promenade there's a tidied-up little waterway by the roadside, a spot where nearby residents come to rest. The section with street trees also has benches set out for people living nearby.
Most of the promenade is shaded by trees, and the stone paving is engraved with patterns of a river. Walking to the end, about one kilometer, brings you to the Setagaya Art Museum in Kinuta Park, outside this neighborhood.
From Yoga Station, you can take the Den-en-toshi Line to Shibuya with no transfer. At Shibuya, the train runs through directly onto the Hanzomon Line, making it convenient to reach Nagatacho and Otemachi too. The bus terminal is right on the north side of the station.
Away from the promenade, the lanes around Yoga were laid out in a grid pattern during the Showa 10s (1935-44). The east-west streets are numbered starting from Oyama-michi going north, called Ichijo-dori, Nijo-dori, and so on up to Jujo-dori.
Going by our street photos, the building exteriors rank 94th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and the streetscape is fairly tidy.
For everyday convenience, this neighborhood ranks 196th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, putting it in the lower-middle range. In 2020, about 183 people lived per hectare in this neighborhood.
Both the Tokyo Interchange, the starting point of the Tomei Expressway, and the Yoga interchange on the Shuto Expressway, are in the Yoga area.
Yoga is read 'yoga,' and one theory says the name comes from a Shingon-sect yoga training hall opened here in the early Kamakura period. In 1889, Yoga Village merged with surrounding villages to become Yoga, a section of Tamagawa Village.
In 1907, the Tamagawa Electric Railway set up a tram stop here. In 1977, Yoga Station on the Shin-Tamagawa Line opened, which is the underground station that's there now.
The Yoga Promenade was completed in 1986. On the site of the old Tamagawa Electric Railway car depot, Setagaya Business Square opened in 1993, a building of 28 floors. The station's secondary name, 'GMO Internet TOWER-mae,' refers to this building.
The Setagaya Art Museum at the end of the promenade, outside this neighborhood, is scheduled for large-scale renovation and will be fully closed from April 2027 to January 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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