Minami-machida Grandberry Park Station (南町田グランベリーパーク駅) is a station in Machida, Tokyo. Tokyu Railways runs it. It is on the DT Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line. It opened on 15 October 1976 as Minami-Machida Station (南町田駅).
History
The station opened on 15 October 1976 as Minami-Machida Station. In April 2000 it added an elevator inside the ticket gates, the first station in Machida to do so. In May 2000 it installed a solar power system built into part of the platform roof, a first for a Japanese railway company. A north exit opened on 1 August 2001.
Express trains began stopping here on weekends and public holidays on 18 March 2006. Semi-express trains began stopping on 21 June 2014. On 13 February 2017 the Grandberry Mall closed, and the Grandberry Mall exit was renamed the front exit. Buses began using the north station plaza on 1 April 2017.
On 9 December 2017 the front ticket gate moved during station improvement work. On 9 June 2019 the front gate and north gate closed, and a new central ticket gate opened, with part of the new station building in use. Movable platform doors began to be used on 8 September 2019. On 1 October 2019 the station was renamed Minami-machida Grandberry Park Station, and weekday express trains began stopping here.
On 6 November 2019 the Grandberry Park ticket gate and waiting room began use, and the south exit was renamed the Grandberry Park exit. On 13 November 2019 a new departure melody began, for the official opening of the Minami-machida Grandberry Park town.
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