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.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
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.