Why you should experience Futako Tamagawa Rise in Tokyo, Japan.
Futako Tamagawa Rise is an ambitious urban district where Tamagawa 2-chome's riverside geography, railway-centered growth, large-scale redevelopment and landscaped public realm converge beside the Tama River.
Set along Tamagawa-dori near Komazawa-dori and just steps from Futako-tamagawa Station, the complex extends from the railway toward Futako Tamagawa Park through towers, retail buildings and a pedestrian spine known as Ribbon Street. Conran & Partners supervised the landscape and exterior design across the development, using the elongated site to create a gradual transition from the commercial concentration around the station toward the greenery of the Kokubunji Escarpment and Tama River. Five residential buildings containing 1,033 homes occupy the riverward portion, including a 42-story tower whose height established a new metropolitan scale within the historically low-rise district. The result is an unusually comprehensive piece of urban reconstruction whose physical sequence deliberately reconnects a major railway station with the river landscape that shaped Futako Tamagawa long before its contemporary commercial growth.
What you should know about Futako Tamagawa Rise.
Futako Tamagawa Rise is best known for completing an urban redevelopment effort whose planning history stretched across more than three decades. Setagaya established a basic redevelopment plan for Futako Tamagawa in March 1983, followed by Tokyo Metropolitan Government designation of the area as a Redevelopment Promotion Area in November 1986. The Futako Tamagawa East District Redevelopment Preparatory Union formed in July 1987. Changes to the city plans for Futako Tamagawa Park and the Tamagawa greenbelt followed in June 1989, and Tokyo designated the area as a District Center within its Third Long-term Project in November 1990. The preparatory union completed an initial facility plan in January 1991, yet the immense project remained unresolved through the economic upheaval that followed Japan's asset-price collapse. A formal city-planning decision for the Futako Tamagawa East District Type-1 Urban Area Redevelopment Project arrived in June 2000. The complete project covered 11.2 hectares, placing it among Tokyo's largest redevelopment undertakings of its kind. Construction of the residential district began in December 2007, and major work on the first commercial district followed in April 2008. Tokyu announced Futako Tamagawa Rise as the name for the emerging district that same month, giving a unified public name to a project whose planning lineage reached back to the early 1980s.
The development proceeded through two major construction phases that radically expanded the district's residential, employment and commercial capacity. Phase I delivered the residential buildings in 2010, followed by offices later that year and the Town Front, River Front and Station Market retail zones in March 2011. Phase II emerged through a separate redevelopment association authorized in July 2010 and concentrated on the II-a block closer to the Tama River. A 30-story tower placed offices on floors 2 through 27 and the Futako Tamagawa Excel Hotel Tokyu across its upper three floors. Phase II reached its principal commercial opening on April 24, 2015, followed by completion of the office component that June and arrival of Rakuten's headquarters workforce later that year. Approximately 84,160 square meters of rentable office area across both phases brought 10,000 workers into the district. Tokyu subsequently measured the population within one kilometer of Futako Tamagawa at 45,368 in April 2025, a 14.8 percent increase from April 2011. The redevelopment also received a LEED Neighborhood Development Gold assessment on November 16, 2015 as the first project worldwide to achieve that level under the neighborhood-development category. Environmental work received the highest AAA JHEP biodiversity ranking in 2014 and the Grand Prize at the 25th Global Environment Award in 2016. Those outcomes completed the shift from a decades-long redevelopment proposal into a new residential and employment center whose scale materially changed Futako Tamagawa's relationship with the wider Tokyu network.
How to fold Futako Tamagawa Rise into your trip.
Futako Tamagawa Rise works as the anchor for a daytime progression through a riverside Japanese garden preserving an early-twentieth-century residence, a museum created from Keita Gotoh's collection and an underground Buddhist pilgrimage route concealed beneath a neighborhood temple.
Begin at Kishin-en, the circuit-style Japanese garden inside Futako Tamagawa Park created by Yasutaka Takasaki and opened on April 14, 2013. Its 5,800-square-meter landscape incorporates the Former Shimizu Residence Shoin, a detached residence constructed around 1910 in Nakanegishi and transferred with the Shimizu family's main house to Seta in 1919. Setagaya dismantled and preserved the Shoin when hospital expansion threatened the structure in 1979, then reconstructed it inside Kishin-en in 2013. The restored building places early-twentieth-century residential culture beside the Kokubunji Escarpment and Tama River scenery that attracted business and political figures to estates around Seta and Kaminoge. Continue to The Gotoh Museum, founded from the Japanese and East Asian art collection assembled by Tokyu chairman Keita Gotoh and opened on April 18, 1960. Gotoh's collecting began with ancient Buddhist sutras encountered through his frequent railway-business journeys to the Kansai region before expanding into Zen calligraphy, tea utensils, ceramics and medieval art. His acquisitions eventually included the Takanashi collection with the twelfth-century Illustrated Handscroll of The Tale of Genji and Kozo Moriya's collection of ancient mirrors. Isoya Yoshida designed the museum with architectural references to Heian-period shinden-zukuri, giving Gotoh's National Treasure handscrolls an architectural setting tied to the era that produced them. Conclude at Tamagawa Daishi, formally Hosenzan Gyokushinin, a Shingon Buddhist temple in Seta whose extraordinary feature lies beneath its main hall. A subterranean passage extending 100 meters was completed in 1934 and contains Buddhist images arranged as a pilgrimage through darkness. The underground route translates the much larger Shikoku pilgrimage tradition into an intensely compressed devotional journey beneath suburban Setagaya. The progression moves from the preservation of an early modern residence through Gotoh and Yoshida's union of collecting and architecture into a subterranean Buddhist pilgrimage, carrying Futako Tamagawa's contemporary redevelopment outward into older layers of riverside residential culture, private patronage and religious practice.
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