Machiya, a shitamachi where small factories, shops and homes huddle together, roses blooming along the tram line
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In this area, small factories, shops, and homes are crowded together. The neighborhood has three stops on the Toden Arakawa Line: Arakawa-nanachome, Machiya-ekimae, and Machiya-nichome. The Arakawa Line is the only remaining Toden (Tokyo streetcar) line; since fiscal year 1985, Arakawa City has planted roses along the line.
At Machiya-ekimae stop alone, 8,555 people got on and off per day in fiscal year 2020. From here, the streetcar heads northwest, with old downtown housing and small factories lining the route the whole way.
Machiya-ekimae stop is sandwiched between the Keisei Main Line and Chiyoda Line stations. The Chiyoda Line's Machiya Station handled about 63,000 passengers a day in fiscal year 2025.
Healthcare ranks 170th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and daily shopping ranks 142nd; both fall in the middle range.
In the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's 2022 earthquake area risk survey, among all 5,192 chome across the city, the top two for overall risk were Arakawa-rokuchome and Machiya-yonchome. Machiya-nichome and Machiya-sanchome are also at the highest level, level 5. In 2020, this neighborhood had about 238 people per hectare.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 276th, in the lower range; sidewalks rank 149th, in the middle range.
When Machiya-ekimae stop opened in 1913, it was called Inarimae stop. In 1931, Keisei's Machiya Station opened next to it, and in 1951 the stop was renamed Machiya-icchome. In 1969, the Chiyoda Line also reached here, and it wasn't until 1977 that the stop was changed to its current name.
Before the station-front redevelopment in the 1990s, the stop's platform was still lined with wooden diners, pachinko parlors, small shops, and photo studios. Today, the station front is the redevelopment building Center Machiya, with a shopping center and multipurpose hall beneath the high-rise residences.
Compared with the 395 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
Hospitals with inpatient beds (2020 data), public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area, high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores. Many Tokyo junior high students attend private schools, so junior high catchments are only a guide.
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