Station

Machida

町田

Machida
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Train service

Weekday departures: 1,139/day · Sat & holiday departures: 857/day

First / last train (weekday): 4:47 / 24:19

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (77)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Machida's JR side opened on 23 September 1908 as Haramachida Station on the Yokohama Railway, which was nationalised on 1 October 1917. The Odakyū side opened on 1 April 1927 as Shin-Haramachida Station on the new Odawara Line. The 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake damaged the older station, and on 1 October 1932 the Yokohama Line was electrified as far as Haramachida. The Odakyū station was renamed Machida on 11 April 1976, and on 23 September 1976 a new station building combined with the Odakyu Department Store opened. The JR station was shifted 400 metres west and renamed Machida on 1 April 1980 to bring the two railways within a 300-metre walking interchange, with a pedestrian deck completed on 24 October. Suica entered service on 18 November 2001.

Notes

When the JR station was renamed Machida in 1980, the National Railways initially objected because the name clashed with an existing Machida Station on the Miyahara Line; mayor Katsumasa Ōshita won approval by citing the parallel-named Fukushima Stations on the Tōhoku Main Line and the Ōsaka Loop Line.

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