Mixed-use buildings beside Shinjuku's south exit, with the big Docomo Tower clock overhead
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Northern Yoyogi is right next to the south exit of Shinjuku Station. The NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building stands on this side, with a clock about 15 meters in diameter mounted on its north face. Before the clock tower in Mecca was completed in 2011, it was the tallest clock tower in the world.
In front of Yoyogi Station there are mostly mixed-use buildings holding restaurants and offices. Cram schools have also put down roots here, with the Yoyogi Seminar head office building built in 2-chome. It's also an easy walk to Shinjuku - as of 2016, the platforms of Shinjuku Station and Yoyogi Station were only about 100 meters apart.
From the mid-1970s to around 1990, the station put up a large sheet of white paper by the stairs to platform 2 every day, letting passengers scribble on it freely. It was cram school and vocational school students who ended up covering the paper with manga and anime characters.
Public transit ranks 11th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, with the station served by the Yamanote Line, the Chuo-Sobu Line Local, and the Oedo Line. Convenience of daily life ranks 14th, and healthcare ranks 12th. 2-chome has the 402-bed JR Tokyo General Hospital, right by the tracks between Shinjuku Station and Yoyogi Station.
This area is mostly offices and commerce: the three chome had around 8,600 residents at the end of 2024, but 8.8 times that many people worked here in 2021. The gap is widest in Yoyogi 2-chome, where high-rise office buildings such as the JR East head office have gone up one after another on the north side since the mid-1990s. Based on our street photos, sidewalks here rank 241st out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, landing in the lower-middle range.
Yoyogi Station opened in 1906, taking its name from nearby Yoyogi Village, though the station itself was built in Sendagaya. What locals used to call "Yoyogi" referred to the Uehara and Tomigaya area outside this neighborhood.
In 1998, Southern Terrace opened - a 350-meter walkway built on an artificial platform over the Odakyu Line tracks. From then on, Shinjuku Station and this area became connected as one. In 2000, the Docomo Yoyogi Building was completed on the former site of the old Japanese National Railways Shinjuku freight station, and the Oedo Line's Yoyogi Station opened the same year.
Yoyogi Seminar finished building its head office in 2-chome in 2008, and many of its school buildings that had been in 1-chome then moved away or downsized. In 2014, it announced that it would close about 70% of its directly-run school buildings starting in fiscal 2015.
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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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