It also began in the early Showa period that railways extended their network as citizen's methods of transportation and developed the land along the railroad lines, where houses were built and people went out shopping on holidays at department stores at railway terminals, and that such a lifestyle became common among people.
市民の足として鉄道会社が開発する沿線の土地には住宅が建てられ、そこに暮らす人々がターミナル駅のデパートで休日に買い物などに立ち寄るといった市民生活が一般的になったのも昭和初期からであった。