The Romancecar Museum sits close to Ebina Station, its galleries holding generations of Odakyu's sleek express trains in retirement. It opened not long ago, and on weekday mornings the place is almost quiet — a child pressing against the glass of a driving simulator, a retired man studying the livery of a carriage he once commuted in. Outside, the station concourse feeds into ViNAWALK and Lalaport on either side, the ordinary machinery of a commuter town running at full speed.
Step east from the station, though, and the texture shifts. The ground rises toward the river terrace, and somewhere in that transition the Nara-period foundations of Sagami Kokubunji emerge from the grass — a state temple built in the eighth century, its bell designated an important cultural property. Further along the same ridge, the Akibayama Kofun cluster marks burial mounds from an earlier age still. These are not sites that announce themselves loudly; they sit in the middle of a residential city, easy to walk past, easy to stop at.
The agricultural west of Ebina produces strawberries, greenhouse tomatoes, carnations, and orchids — phalaenopsis and cattleya among them — sold at the JA Sagami Ebina Green Center alongside whatever is in season. Izumibashi, the sake brewed by Izumibashi Shuzo with its base here, carries the name of a local waterway. The city moves fast in its commercial zones and slowly in its fields, and both are genuinely present, neither performing for the other.
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What converges here
2 in this city. 85 within 25 km of the city hall.
- Romancecar Museum
- Ebina City Onkokan
- Atsugi City Museum
- Isuzu Plaza
- Joshibi University of Art and Design Art Museum
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Distances are straight-line from the municipal office. Each website was checked in September 2026. Some locations © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Sagami Kokubunji Temple Ruins
- Sagami Kokubunji Nunnery Ruins
- Akibayama Tumulus Group
- Ebina
- Ebina
- Atsugi
- Ebina
- Atsugi
- Sagamino
- Kashiwadai
- Shake
- Kadosawabashi