This is how Tsudanuma JR station looks like. There are stores around and they used to be more of them before some stores move out to suburbs as more people use cars instead of trains. The store on the first floor of the left building was closed last year. The building on the right has had trouble finding tenants and some of the floors had been empty for quite some time. (It seems like a food store is to occupy the floors.) Now the stores in front of the station "ekimae-shoutengai" are trying to get the customers back and it is one of their slogans nowadays.
The place is made for those who come by bicycles and pedestrians that come by buses. Additional parking lots for cars were built much later. There are places to park bicycles for limited amount of time. The sign says two hours free, 30 cents for every 90 minutes.
