東京を代表する学生の街、早稲田。
その中でも古い歴史を誇る早稲田商店会は、東京さくらトラム(都電荒川線)早稲田駅からリーガ―ロイヤルホテル東京、早稲田大学北門までをエリアとしています。
東京に残る唯一の都電、荒川線は地域の身近な足として長年親しまれています。その新宿区唯一の区間である早稲田～面影橋区間は、都内屈指の桜の名所神田川に沿って走り、入学式のころには車窓から見事な満開の桜が見られます。
早稲田と言うと、学生街のイメージがありますが、早稲田商店会エリアは、大学の喧噪から少し離れた、この神田川沿いの桜並木のように落ち着いた生活感あふれる昔ながらの商店街です。住民には大学生も多く、彼らは地域に根を張った住民や商店主に溶け込み、安心安全なまちづくりや皆で子どもたちを育んでいく早稲田ならではの文化を形成しています。
早稲田商店会は、学生と共に「早稲田魂」を体現する町として、日本有数の大学町の名に恥じぬよう、早稲田地球感謝祭をはじめ、これからも様々な企画を打ち出していきます。学生と一体となったまちづくりを、どうぞご覧にいらしてください。
Student's town and Waseda which represent Tokyo. Waseda stores association which also takes pride in its old history at the inside makes from Tokyo Sakura Tram (metropolitan streetcar Arakawa line) Waseda station Rihga-Royal Hotel Tokyo and Waseda University Kitamon area. The only metropolitan streetcar left in Tokyo, Arakawa line are enjoying for a long time as a close foot in an area. Metropolitan area passes through Waseda where its Shinjuku-ku is the only section-Omokage-bashi area along landmark Kanda-gawa of an outstanding cherry tree, and an excellent full-blown cherry tree is judged from train windows around an entrance ceremony. When they says Waseda, there is an image in a student's town, but area of Waseda stores association is the traditional shopping area full of living sense which calmed down like cherry tree along this Kanda-gawa away from the noise of a university a little. A resident has a lot of college students, too and they dissolve in the resident and the store host who had spreading roots in an area, and relief forms culture Waseda where children are being cherished out of safe community building and everyone. Waseda stores association will also propose various plans now including Waseda earth Thanksgiving Day so that it isn't ashamed of Japan in an eminent name in student's town as the town which embodies "Waseda soul" with a student. Please have the community building which became united with a student, you see it, please come.