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No.37 Tama housing new town (Vol.1)

(It is the Tokyo guide to introduce by the image and the column).


(Source : "Tama-new-town" The brochure)



Tama-new-town (hereinafter Tama NT to be) is a large-scale house development area in 14 km of east and west which equals Inagi City, Hachioji City, Machida City mainly in the about 150-m altitude, Tama City situated on Tama-kyuryo in Tokyo southern part, 2-4 km of north and south. It links Keio Sagamihara line within about 35 minutes from Shinjuku by using it and it is the development which supplied a house by the great city with the great distance new community in Osaka as the new community in great city Tokyo.

As for the Tokyo area, the high economic growth in the 1960s, Japan spread urbanization rapidly and a great deal of wage earners flowed in. It accompanied to that and the house residential land demand increased and with the soaring of the price of land of the central city, the disordered development (making a sprawl) progressed in the Tama area which is suburbs. To supply (Showa 40) the good residential land and the house of the living environment in quantities from this thing, the Tama NT development of the decision, about 300,000 plan populations, the about 2980-ha total area was done in 1965, "the Atarasumi home city development business city planning".

The housing land development in Tama NT
The business which services residential land development and so on by buying land completely by the operator, the Atarasumi home city development business
It changes a block character by the procedure, 換地, and it improves use as the residential land in the possessed land, the land land readjustsment business. The service of the ( road and the sewage and so on which is done by the business is done by the related public facilities service business. Making that ) buys the land of the former completely in Tama NT mainly (Rad Byrne method) road composition "YA" to have been developing residential land and to have made be thorough by the 歩 car separation The house development having to do with a surface which has the personality and the attractiveness that the thought of the design development such as the arrangement of the building and the park where a balance was taken reflected is done.

As for the operator of the Atarasumi home city development business, it is done by city basis development corporation (the front-house and Urban Development Corporation), the Tokyo house supply public corporation, Tokyo.

Visit model route


The first half of the 1970s

The area which was begun first in the movement in Tama NT was Suwa and Nagayama area and it is in the Wada and Atagi To-ji area that it was begun the next year in the movement. It was the times "to supply a high quality house to mass early inexpensively", and a box-shaped middle layer house (the five-story) was constructed in parallel and high-rise housing (the 14th floor building), too, was constructed to the point.

* The Suwa and Nagayama housing complex 1971(S46) year movement beginning
In 3DK, the central city, the average dwelling door exclusive use area are about 50 m2. The box-shaped middle layer house and the high-rise housing of the rectangular parallelepiped were constructed.


The Kaitori housing complex which was developed in the early stages


The Yutaka "KE" hill and the Kaitori nearby center (The schematic : The door shop) (A)


The nearby center schematic


The decline of the retail store by the branch in the large-sized supermarket and so on
It is caused in the nearby center.

It is the thing which is the same as the decline of the central city.


The doctor village which is in the nearby center (The schematic : The ill)

The second half of the 1970s

* The Kaitori and Yutaka "KE" hill housing complex 1976(S51) year movement beginning
The basic outward appearance, the plan are the same as Suwa and Nagayama housing complex. It was and it wrote area roughly and as the introduction of wide LDK about the subdivision house, and so on, the average dwelling door exclusive use area crossed 70m2. Also, by the road legal revision in 1971, a network (rad Byrne method of the step car separation) in the pedestrian exclusive road by the pedestrian deck which wasn't made of Suwa and Nagayama area was realized. Only rather than the park, too, took a square plaza, the device to arrange a pond, and so on, became seen.


In thoroughgoing target with the pedestrian deck (the pedestrian overpass)
歩 car separation is attempted. (B)


The box-shaped middle layer house in the early stages (It is called a sweetened and jellied bean paste type, too).


The garbage cachet


The 1st floor BBS

The entrance at the apartment building constructed by the Housing Corporation is openhearted and it is easy for it to enter. As for it, the person except the resident, too, is the fact that it is easy to enter and thinks of calling whether or not it is on the such structure, too, the housing complex of the public corporation for much graffiti to the wall and trick (having dissolved the button of plastic with the lighter) at the elevator button to occur.


To 5 a.m. from 11 p.m. for the crime prevention
The elevator which stops at each floor compulsorily
It doesn't collect on the 14th floor inhabitants (At the midnight, all doors open).


In the area which was serviced by the Atarasumi home city development business, in the junior high school ward, as the basic unit, it is divided into the block which is called "the dwelling ward" in the boundary in the turnpike.
All the numbers of the dwelling wards are a 21 dwelling ward and as for the 1 dwelling ward, about 100-ha area, 3,000-5,000 houses, 12,000-20,000 populations are planned.
It installs a junior high school 1 school, an elementary school 2 school in each dwelling ward as the principle and the nearby center such as the supermarket and the store, the police box, the post office, the clinic where the resident service facility gathers are arranged.
Moreover, "the area" which gathered some dwelling wards is composed and the area center which is a service center in the area is arranged in the center (becoming a railroad station) in the area.
Attractive and it becomes the attractiveness of Tama NT and a characteristic. If not being development by the government offices such as the public corporation and the prefecture, such development will be difficult.

Dwelling ward mapping

No. To 38 pieces of Tama-new-town (the 2)

The reference book
· The Tama-new-town brochure
· The March issue of 93 of Nikkei "A-KITEKUTIYUA"

Tama NT Net tama-nt.com
A development concept every dwelling ward is introduced in detail.



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