For the past 18 years, the Moritown/Espa shopping complex has been “it” for Akishima residents and until it’s renovation, the complex didn’t really offer much in the way of products or jobs. That is rapidly changing. Over the next year or so, Akishima will see a cinema complex, a Harley Davidson store, a restaurant/specialty mall, and a swimming school. I am personally looking forward to the restaurant/mall and cinema complex.

This development should help pull Akishima out of the dark pit of economical depression it has wallowed in over the past decade and a half. Moritown alone has created jobs for a lot of the local high school kids, senior citizens, and single mothers.

Akishima Station Development Plans ^[1].