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Komae City

A survey turned up a cut-stone chamber.

Inogata-Ogawazuka Kofun

Photo by イカしたイカ (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Tamagawa Monument

Matsudaira Sadanobu, of the Kansei reforms,wrote the poem on the monument.

Tamagawa Monument in Komae City — Photo by イカしたイカ (CC BY-SA 4.0)

In 1805 a village headman of Inogata and a man staying at his house raised funds to erect the Tamagawa Monument, a Manyoshu poem stele. It was lost and later rebuilt. Tokyo designates the site a historic site, the Remains of the Tamagawa Monument.

Monument erected in 1805
Inscription by Matsudaira Sadanobu
Tokyo-designated historic site

02 ／ Benzaiten Pond

A spring said to rise at Roben's rain prayer,as the Edo Meisho Zue records.

The Edo Meisho Zue, published in 1834 and 1836, records a legend: the priest Roben prayed for rain in a drought, a dragon-serpent appeared and brought rain, and the sacred spring that welled up then is Benzaiten Pond. The pond is a city-designated historic site.

Legend recorded in the Edo Meisho Zue
Said to date to Roben's rain prayer
City-designated historic site (1973)

03 ／ Etegami

A class held at a post office in 1981:the city claims the birthplace of etegami.

In 1981 Japan's first etegami class was held at Komae Post Office. In fiscal 2007 "Komae, birthplace of etegami" became a city project, and 24 manholes with etegami designs line the pavement in front of Komae Station.

Etegami class of 1981
City project since fiscal 2007
24 etegami manholes near the station

Komae City from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

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））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

Shinjuku to Komae in 26 minutes on the Odakyu Line.

about 80,000 people
30 min to a city centre

On the Odakyu Odawara Line, the fastest daily train from Shinjuku Station to Komae Station takes 26 minutes (October 2026 timetable; most trains take 27 to 29). City Hall is a 3-minute walk from Komae Station, and the city also has Izumi-Tamagawa Station. Both stations opened in 1927 with the line.

People living here: 84,772people
Area: 6.39km²
Households: 42,616households
Rent (average for rentals): 68,428yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 66 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —16 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Komae City in Japan35.635°N 139.579°E

to ShinjukuOdakyu Odawara Line26min

Travel times follow 小田急電鉄の新宿駅下り時刻表（NAVITIME 配信 https://transfer.navitime.biz/odakyu-transit/smart/diagram/Search?startId=00004254&linkId=00000686&direction=down&nodeType=train 。2026年10月22日現在）の平日（10/22-23）・土休日（10/25-26）の小田原線各停系・急行の全394本について、列車ごとの停車駅ページ（StopListDiagram）で新宿の発と狛江の着の差を数えた (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Komae City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.

North to south

3.6km

Tokyo: Chofu City, Setagaya Ward
Kanagawa Prefecture: Kawasaki City

Komae City isthis kind of town.

01Inogata-Ogawazuka Kofun was found in a survey ahead of housing development in 2011. Its stone chamber, of cut mudstone with a main and front room, became a Tokyo historic site in 2021
02The Tamagawa Monument is a Manyoshu poem stele first erected in 1805, with an inscription by Matsudaira Sadanobu; the present monument is a rebuild. Its site is a Tokyo-designated historic site
03Senryu-ji's Benzaiten Pond, a city historic site, has a legend of a spring raised by a rain prayer, recorded in the Edo Meisho Zue. In 1981 Japan's first etegami class was held at Komae Post Office

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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