Where the name Tamagawa comes from, what stood here before the station, and what you can still spot on a walk today. Then the events near the station that we have checked on the official pages.
Tamagawa Station takes its name from the nearby Tama River, but that simple name has a complicated history. When the station opened on March 11, 1923, it was called Tamagawa. It became Maruko-Tamagawa in 1926, Tamagawaen-mae in 1931, and Tamagawaen in 1977. These changes reflected the popularity of a nearby amusement park rather than a change in the river or the neighborhood itself.
Tamagawaen opened in 1925 as a leisure destination with baths, rides, and other attractions. Families arrived by train to spend the day outside central Tokyo. The amusement park stood east of the station, on land now occupied by Denenchofu Seseragi Park. Although the park closed in 1979, its name remained attached to the railway station for another two decades.
On August 6, 2000, Tokyu restored the original name, Tamagawa. Walk west from the station and the ground rises toward Tamagawadai Park, overlooking the broad river. Head east and you reach the wooded slopes of the former amusement park. Within a short walk, the landscape explains why the station was named first for a river, then for an amusement park, and finally for the river again.
→ Explore Denenchofu Seseragi Park east of the station, where the former Tamagawaen amusement park once operated. Then head west into the wooded hills of Tamagawadai Park and look toward the Tama River. These two landscapes explain the station's changing names.
Sources (in Japanese): 東急株式会社「東急100年史・鉄軌道事業各駅概要」, 東急株式会社「東急100年史・駅名や路線名の変更」
East of Tamagawa Station, Denenchofu Seseragi Park occupies the site of an amusement park that once attracted visitors from across Tokyo. Tamagawaen opened in 1925 with public baths, a merry-go-round, a haunted house, and a long hillside slide. Its designers made use of the sloping terrain, turning a wooded valley into a popular day-trip destination for families.
Cross to the western side of the station and the history becomes much older. Tamagawadai Park stretches for approximately 750 meters along the ridge above the Tama River. Among its archaeological remains is Kamenokoyama Kofun, a keyhole-shaped burial mound measuring more than 107 meters in length. It is thought to have been constructed in the late fourth century. Its elevated position above the river reflects the importance of this landscape long before Tokyo existed.
Tamagawaen closed in 1979. The site was subsequently used for tennis facilities before being converted into a public park, which formally opened in 2008. Today, the station stands between two different historical worlds: an ancient burial ground overlooking the river and the wooded slopes of a twentieth-century amusement park.
→ In Denenchofu Seseragi Park, follow the slope known as Oyama-zaka, associated with the amusement park's former giant slide. Across the station, Tamagawadai Park contains Kamenokoyama Kofun and a small burial-mound exhibition room. Explore both hillsides to compare their very different histories.
Sources (in Japanese): 東急電鉄「多摩川駅前の田園調布せせらぎ公園・せせらぎ館」, 大田区「多摩川台公園・亀甲山古墳」
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