13213 ／ ひがしむらやまし
TokyoA bracket's ink fixed the hall's date.
Shōfukuji Jizōdō, 1407 ink01 ／ Jōmon lacquer
At the Shimoyakebe Remains beside the Kita River, 70 lacquer-tree trunks were found reused as posts, and 43 of them carry scratch marks running all the way around. These are thought to be traces of lacquer tapping. Pots that held lacquer sap and stone dishes used to grind red pigment were also unearthed.
02 ／ Giant tree
At Baigan-ji Temple in Kumegawa-cho, large zelkova trees stand along the inside of the wall on the south side of the grounds, and the one beside the main gate is a Tokyo Metropolitan Natural Monument. It is 27.0 m tall with a trunk 7.3 m around. The Edo-period gazetteer Shinpen Musashi Fudokiko also records old trees at the gate, and the metropolitan government says this suggests the tree was already well known then.
03 ／ Train library
The city's list of fifty townscape views says that in 1967 a library in a yellow train was made inside a housing estate through the efforts of citizens. Since 2001, after the estate was rebuilt, the Kumegawa Train Library has been run from a second-generation yellow Seibu train car.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot June–November 2019)Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
On the Seibu Shinjuku Line limited express Koedo, it is about 25 minutes from Seibu-Shinjuku to Higashi-Murayama (a limited express fee is charged separately). City Hall is about a 12-minute walk from the east exit of Higashi-Murayama Station on the Seibu Shinjuku and Kokubunji lines. The city's list of fifty views says there are nine stations in the city.
+1.2% since 2015
135,112 → 151,815
16.77km² of it habitable
2024
2.2 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
6.9 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 西武鉄道の時刻表データを使う駅探（ekitan.com）の乗換案内。西武新宿→東村山を、特急を含む設定（ep=1・tu3=1）で、平日（2026-10-23）・土曜（10-24）・日曜（10-25）の特急小江戸の全便（西武新宿の時刻表に載る平日26本・土休日25本）の発着を『着』の時刻で数えた (checked 2026-10-23). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
5.2km
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