The department stores and shopping streets around the JR and Odakyu Machida stations, out to the quiet homes of Morino and Nakamachi to the north
Machida Station is actually two stations: the JR Yokohama Line station and the Odakyu Line station are about 5 minutes' walk apart, linked by a pedestrian bridge that's busy all day with people transferring trains and shopping. This bridge also connects to the department stores in front of the station, like Marui, Lumine, and Machida Tokyu Twins. There are also 13 shopping streets around the station area, running from the main road all the way back into the side streets.
Living here makes shopping easy - it ranks 49th out of Tokyo's 174 neighbourhoods for everyday shopping. You won't have to travel far for medical care either, as medical and pharmacy access ranks 47th. If you feel like a walk, Serigaya Park in Haramachida 5-chome is about 13 minutes on foot from the station. The park is home to the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, one of the few museums in Japan devoted entirely to prints. In Nakamachi 1-chome, north of the station, the site of the old city hall is now a grassy plaza called "Machida Shibahiro".
Despite the size of the station, Machida ranks only 168th out of 174 neighbourhoods for public transport. Transferring between JR and Odakyu means crossing that pedestrian bridge, and both lines have to pass through Kanagawa Prefecture before reaching other parts of Tokyo. North of the station is one of Tokyo's liveliest entertainment districts, still busy well after dark - if you value quiet, it's worth checking how far a property is from this area when you go viewing. Based on our street photos, greenery here ranks only 148th - if you want to see some green space, you'll need to head out to Serigaya Park.
The "hara" (原) in Haramachida means "open field" or "wilderness". In 1582, farmers from Machida Village (now Honmachida) cleared the nearby wilderness, and this led to the founding of Haramachida Village; a regular market also began that same year. In the late Edo period, the "Silk Road" that carried raw silk from Hachioji to Yokohama passed through here, and Haramachida became a relay point in the silk trade. In 1893, the Tama region was transferred from Kanagawa Prefecture to Tokyo Prefecture, and Machida has been a corner of Tokyo jutting into Kanagawa ever since. In 1908, the Yokohama Railway opened Haramachida Station here, and in 1927 Odakyu opened Shin-Haramachida Station. Because Odakyu's line curved northwest to avoid a valley, the two stations ended up far apart, and people rushing to make their connections wore a path that became known as "Marathon Road". Later, when the city wanted to move the JR station next to the Odakyu one, the shopping street caught between the two stations, fearing it would lose customers, gathered over 4,000 signatures in protest. In 1980 the JR station was moved there anyway and renamed Machida Station. After Machida City was established in 1958, large housing developments went up one after another, and department stores followed, moving into Haramachida.
Compared with the 174 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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Compared against the Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide; metrics without enough data are not ranked. Shopping counts convenience stores plus the nearer of a supermarket or a traditional market (public and private retail markets); night markets, vendor zones and shopping-street shops are not counted. Transit is rail-first with a lower weight for buses.
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