まち
Meanings
Noun
1. town; block; neighbourhood; neighborhood
esp. 町
2. downtown; main street
3. street; road
4. 109.09 m
when read as "ちょう"
5. 0.99 hectares
when read as "ちょう"
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (81 in total)
belle; (town) beauty
Muromachi period (1333-1573)
downtown
port city; harbor city; harbour city
town planning; urban development; community development; creating a community
red-light district
Omachi rice; late growing wet-land rice variety, often used in sake production
street corner
women's pavilion (of the inner Heian palace)
(Edo-period) town magistrate
the whole town; all over the town; throughout the town
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
outskirts (of a town); edge (of a town); just outside the city limits
neighboring town; neighbouring town; adjacent town
residential area
back street; back alley; slums
persons organized into gangs and wearing flashy clothes, who styled themselves as "chivalrous men" (Edo period)
country town; rural town
walking about town; stroll around town; walking the streets (e.g. for exercise)
castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord
inn town; post town; post-station town
red-light district; prostitution quarter; geisha quarter
town girl; girl raised in a town
physician in private practice; (arch.) town doctor; (arch.) doctor who served the townspeople (as opposed to the emperor, a daimyo, etc.)
sponsors of rikishi or their stables
fishing village
street with houses lined up only on one side
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
nightlife districts; drinking districts
townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family
the whole town
small factory in town; backstreet (small) workshop
small factory in town; backstreet (small) workshop
revitalization of a town; town renewal (project)
basic Chinese restaurant; hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant
town hall
streets
town originally built around a temple or shrine
to pass through town
being raised in a town
group dating; gathering for young people to socialize with the opposite sex
martial arts school situated in a town
hot-spring resort; onsen town; spa town
senior town administrator (Edo period)
loan shark; high-interest consumer finance firm
Edo-period official of the chōnin social class; town official
streetwalker
town geisha; geisha not working in a red-light district
Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)
street clothes; townwear
women's pavilion (of the inner Heian palace)
business street
Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)
town order (Edo period); order issued by a shogun or daimyo affecting a whole town, and passed on by town officials
town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)
public bath located in a city or town
assisting town official (Edo period)
inferior; second-rate
Machimura Faction (of the LDP)
street festival; street fair
important local businessmen (in the Muromachi period); local leaders
palanquin
tori-no-machi (held at Ōtori Shrine on each day of the Rooster in November)
Motomachi Station (Hyōgo)
Ōtemachi Station
Shinmachi Station (Gunma)
Kawaramachi Station
Marutamachi Station
Ogawamachi Station
Ōmachi Station
Sakuramachi Station (Nagano)
Kataharamachi Station
Kanamachi Station
Gofukumachi Station (Fukuoka)
Aramachi Station
Yamanomachi Station
Kannonmachi Station
Examples (73 in total)
This city used to be beautiful.
I'm going downtown today.
I was bored, so I wandered around town.