For many people, Daikanyama Station is a familiar station which leads you Daikanyama, a neighborhood in Shibuya-ward best known for its small boutique shops and has been nicknamed “The Brooklyn of Tokyo”.
Daikanyama Station is Station Number TY02 of Tokyu Toyoko which was opened in August 1933 (Showa 8) and was originally known as Teito Electric Railway.
In 1942, during World War II, Teito Electric Railway and Tokyo Yokohama Railway merged and was reorganized to Tokyu Corporation.
The station receives around 11,328 passengers per day (as of 2019) and its peak passengers was in 1973 (Showa 48) with 14,515 total passengers.
For me, it’s a station I often take when leaving Shibuya and need to reach Daikan-yama Station or Naka-meguro Station. One can also take the station all the way to Yokohama, especially Minato Mirai.
It’s also an alternative for me to use the Fukutoshin Line to get back to Ikebukuro, Harajuku or Shinjuku-sanchome. But it’s a line that I primarily use when I need to get to Daikan-yama Station or Naka-meguro Station and I actually discovered Daikanyama Station for the first time by accident.
I remember I was trying to find a coffee shop in Naka-meguro and then looking for restaurants, I kept walking and next thing you know about 15-20 minutes later, I was in Daikanyama before the holidays, discovering this ritzy area and from that point on, I have been visiting Daikan-yam each and every year I’m in Tokyo.
