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Jiyūgaoka

Jiyūgaoka 'Liberty Hill' is a neighborhood in southern Meguro, Tokyo, Japan.

Jiyūgaoka
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The place

Jiyūgaoka 'Liberty Hill' is a neighborhood in southern Meguro, Tokyo, Japan. It consists of districts 1-chome to 3-chome, and had a population of 7,231 as of January 2013. The name also refers to the broader area surrounding Jiyūgaoka Station, which includes both Jiyūgaoka, part of Midorigaoka and nearby Okusawa (奥沢) in Setagaya.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Jiyūgaoka

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Tokyo Institute of Technology

    The Tokyo Institute of Technology was a public university in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan. It merged with Tokyo Medical and Dental University to form the Institute of Science Tokyo on 1 October 2024.

    1.4 km · national top-tier research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Institute of Science Tokyo

    The Institute of Science Tokyo is a public research university in Tokyo, Japan. It was officially established on 1 October 2024, by a merger between the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

    1.4 km · public research university in Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium

    The Uvance Todoroki Stadium by Fujitsu, officially Todoroki Athletics Stadium, a.k.a. formerly the Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Todoroki Ryokuchi in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

    2.8 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium

    Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. The stadium is an integral feature of Komazawa Olympic Park and is currently used mostly for football matches and rugby union games.

    2.1 km · building in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Komazawa Olympic Park

    Komazawa Olympic Park is a sports facility that was constructed for the 1964 Summer Olympics. Approximately 90 per cent of the park's area is in Setagaya, with the remaining 10 per cent sitting within Meguro.

    2.1 km · park located in Setagaya-ku and Meguro-ku, Tokyo · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum

    The Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum is an art museum in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. From 1946 until 1974, Machiko Hasegawa drew the comic strip Sazae-san about an ordinary Japanese family led by a good-natured mother and wife, Sazae.

    3.2 km · museum in Japan · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Gotoh Museum

    The Gotoh Museum is a private museum in the Kaminoge district of Setagaya on the southwest periphery of Tokyo, Japan. It was opened in 1960, displaying the private collection of Keita Gotō, chairman of the Tokyu Group.

    3.1 km · art museum in Kaminoge Setagaya Tokyo Japan · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Komazawa University

    Komazawa University, abbreviated as 駒大 Komadai, is a private university in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. Its history starts in 1592, when a seminary was established to be a center of learning for the young monks of the Sōtō sect, one of the two main Zen Buddhist traditions in Japan.

    2.6 km · university in Setagaya Ward, Tōkyō Metropolis, Japan · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Zenyōmitsu-ji Temple

    Zenyōmitsu-ji is a Buddhist temple in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo, Japan. The temple follows the Shingon creed of Vajrayana Buddhism, which attaches particular importance to the origins of Buddhism and its manifestation throughout history.

    2.5 km · Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Todoroki Ryokuchi

    Todoroki Ryokuchi is a park located in Nakahara-ku ward, Kawasaki, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is famous for its sport facilities including an athletics stadium, gym, a baseball field, a pool, a tennis court, and it contains a museum as well.

    2.9 km · park in Japan · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Jiyūgaoka

Airports
Tokyo Haneda (HND), 12 km · Narita (NRT), 67 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 93 km
Stations
Jiyūgaoka Station, 0 m · Nakanobu Station, 4 km · Musashi-Kosugi Station, 3.6 km · Futako-Tamagawa Station, 3.8 km · Den-en-chōfu Station, 1.2 km
  • Narita → Jiyūgaoka
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · ¥870–1,190
  • Omitama → Jiyūgaoka
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · ¥1,160–1,580
  • Makinohara / Shimada → Jiyūgaoka
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · ¥2,160–2,940
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Jiyūgaoka

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Jiyūgaoka. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHitchhiking into Tokyo is pretty easy, but hitchhiking out is considerably more difficult.
  • Get inIt's definitely possible for determined cheapskates though, see Hitchhiking in Japan for a detailed list of tested escape routes from the city.
  • Get inKokusai Kogyo Bus (国際興業バス) Keisei Bus (京成バス) Keikyu Bus (京急バス) Keio Bus (Japanese Website) (京王バス) Kanto Bus (関東バス) Nishi Tokyo Bus (Japanese Website) (西東京バス) Odakyu Bus (Japanese Website) (小田急バス) Odakyu Highway Bus (小田急ハイウェイバス) Seibu Bus (西武バス) Tobu Bus (Japanese Website) (東武バス) Tohoku Kyuko Bus (東北急行バス) One of the great ports of the world, Tokyo also has domestic ferry services to other points in Japan.
  • Get inHowever, none of the regular international ferries to Japan call at Tokyo.
  • Get inThe main long-distance ferry terminal is , on an artificial island adjacent to Odaiba in Tokyo Bay.

From Wikivoyage: Tokyo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
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    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,200 km
  2. 02
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

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  3. 03
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    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

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  4. 04
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    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,951 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

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Around it

Next door to Jiyūgaoka

Jiyūgaoka is 4 km from Setagaya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Nakahara-kuone of the 7 wards of the city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan3.7 km
  • Den'en Chōfutown located in Ōta-ku, Tokyo1.4 km
  • Sangen-jayaneighborhood in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo3.7 km
  • Yōganeighborhood in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo3.7 km
  • Nakamachineighborhood in Setagaya city, Tokyo, Japan2.3 km
  • Nakachōtown located in Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan3.7 km