Neighbourhood · Machida

Minami-Machida

南町田

The Grandberry Park mall, the Snoopy Museum and Tsuruma Park by Minami-Machida Grandberry Park Station, with detached homes and big apartment blocks north toward Route 16

Local guide

01First impressions

Minami-Machida Grandberry Park Station is the southernmost station in Tokyo, and also the highest-altitude station on the Tokyu network. Coming out of the ticket gates on the south side of the station, you're right at the Grandberry Park shopping complex; further in are the Snoopy Museum and Tsuruma Park. On the north side of the station, past National Route 16, is a residential area made up of detached houses and large apartment complexes.

02What works

The shopping complex has about 240 stores, including a supermarket, an outlet mall, and a cinema. The Snoopy Museum is the world's only branch of the Charles M. Schulz Museum in California, USA (which commemorates the creator of Peanuts). Tsuruma Park covers 7.1 hectares and is the largest park in the southern part of Machida City, with lots of cherry blossoms in spring. In our street photos, the streets are clean — this neighbourhood ranks 34th out of 174 neighbourhoods in Tokyo for cleanliness. There's also plenty of greenery, with greenery ranking 30th.

03Heads-up

This neighbourhood is served by just one train line, the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line, so public transport ranks 173rd out of 174 neighbourhoods, second to last. Despite having a large shopping complex, this neighbourhood only ranks 164th for everyday shopping. These two facts aren't actually contradictory: that ranking looks at how many supermarkets and convenience stores you can walk to from each home, and here the big stores are all concentrated in one spot — the shopping complex south of the station. North of National Route 16, the residential area has always had few commercial facilities.

04A bit of history

According to legend, cranes once flew here, and the place name "Tsuruma" comes from "Tsurumai no Sato" (the village where cranes dance). One account says Tsuruma Village was once a post town along the Kamakura-kaido and the Kinu no Michi (the Silk Road), the route used to transport raw silk. During archaeological surveys ahead of the 2017 redevelopment of Tsuruma Park, remains of dwellings from the Kofun period through the Nara period were excavated. In 1893, this area was transferred from Kanagawa Prefecture to Tokyo Prefecture, and in 1954 the Minami Village it belonged to was merged into Machida Town. The station opened in 1976, named Minami-Machida Station by combining "Minami" from the old Minami Village with "Machida". In 2000, Grandberry Mall opened south of the station; it was originally meant to operate for about 10 years, but ended up running until 2017. After redevelopment, Grandberry Park opened in 2019, and the station was renamed to its current name the same year. The town name "Minami-Machida" north of National Route 16 only appeared in 2016.

Compiled by TidyMap with AI from public sources · updated 2026-10 · 5 sources

Compared with the 174 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)

Street Environment7.3No. 67

Cleanliness9.1No. 34

Buildings8.0No. 77

Sidewalks4.8No. 113

Greenery7.5No. 30

Convenience6.0No. 171

Transit5.5No. 173

Everyday shopping6.7No. 164

Healthcare5.8No. 172

Nearby neighbourhoods

The closest neighbourhoods in the same city.

NaruseNeat low-rise homes and parks laid out by land readjustment on both sides of JR Naruse Station, with the cherry-lined Onda River to the north MachidaThe department stores and shopping streets around the JR and Odakyu Machida stations, out to the quiet homes of Morino and Nakamachi to the north TamagawagakuenThe hilly residential district laid out by the founder of Tamagawa Gakuen, with Odakyu Tamagawagakuen-mae Station in the valley between the slopes TsurukawaThe shops and library by Odakyu Tsurukawa Station, with the hillside homes of Nogaya to the north and Buaiso, the former Shirasu residence TamasakaiThe westernmost corner of Tama New Town: tidy new condos, detached homes and Oyama-dairi Park north of Keio Tamasakai Station

66 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-04

How are these measured?

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.

TidyMap rates the street environment and everyday convenience. It does not assess the home itself, safety, noise or actual living experience. About data limits

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