History
Machiya-nichōme Station (SA 07) is a Toden Arakawa Line tram stop in Arakawa 6-chōme, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo. It opened on 1 April 1913 as Machiya Station with the Ōji Electric Tramway's first section between Mi-no-wa (today Mi-no-wabashi) and Asukayama-shita (today Kajiwara). On 1 February 1942 it became part of the Tokyo City Tramway's Mikawashima Line (today the Arakawa Line) and was renamed Machiya-nichōme around the same time.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Despite its name, the stop is in Arakawa 6-chōme — the 'Machiya-nichōme' designation refers to an earlier district name that was changed in postwar address reorganisations but retained as the tram-stop name.