Abstract
Recently, a new business style called Ekinaka which has many stores in the wicket has been growing dramatically. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts to the surrounding commercial area of the station by the development of “ Ekinaka ”with the case of Akabane Station-“ecute Akabane” ， and to clarify the main causes of them. The main results are as follows; 1) 20% of all users of “ecute Akabane” ceased to use some of the stores located in the surrounding commercial area of Akabane Station and this phenomena tends to occur at the stores which deal with ready made foods. 2) The principal factors of 1) are below two. The first factor is the similarity of the contents of commodities between “ecute Akabane” and the stores located in the surrounding commercial area of Akabane Station. The second is the predominance of the location of “Ekinaka”- its location in the wicket.
