Neighborhood

Hachiouji

What are there in my own town is very important. The more there are shops, the more my life would be convenient life.
I live in Hachiouji and many shops are on my way home from the Hachiouji station. SOGO department, TOKYU store (a kind of shopping mall), three drugstores, many convenient stores and some other kind of shops. There are too many convenient store and Izakaya.
These days, one big store’s open is controversial. Last year, OIOI Hachiouji went bankrupt and the building advertises for tenant. We were interested in what is the next.
I’d thought that there would be some fashion building because Hachiouji has 21 universities and collage. One of my friends living in Hachiouji said, “I hear that Tokyu Hands may come ”. It must be nicer than fashion building, I think.
However, neither the company nor fashion building came there. Instead of these nice facilities, catapult and computer game amusement center win the right to enter the building. That conclusion made all citizens surprise because we never thought of that.
I disagree that, too. I don’t mean that this kind of center is always bad. Just what I want say is that its location doesn’t site for these. First, the building is next to the station. It comes in the landmark of Hachiouji. Second, that kind of establishment could be injurious to public morals. Third, Hachioiji is academic city. Once you see the new catapult and computer game amusement center, you would feel that this city doesn’t have a pleasant ambience.

In fact, because of the petition drive that said “No!!” from citizens and board of education, the center’s opening has already delayed. I don’t know that which side win, but I hope not to open the store.