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Machida City, Tokyo: High School Students and Citizens Wanted to Change Machida's Future!

Published Apr 30, 2026 7:00 PM ・ Updated Jun 2, 2026 1:03 PM ・ 6 min read ・ Source: PR TIMES

Machida City is recruiting high school students and citizens to participate as evaluators in the 2026 Citizen Participation Project Evaluation. This initiative aims to reflect citizens' voices in city administration and improve administrative services, with evaluators involved from project selection to evaluation.

Machida City has been implementing the "Citizen Participation Project Evaluation" since fiscal year 2008 to utilize citizens' voices for improving administrative management and services.

The 2026 project evaluation, scheduled to be held on Saturday, November 28, will involve high school students residing or attending school in the city, and citizens residing in the city, from the selection of target projects to their evaluation.

Therefore, we are recruiting high school evaluators and citizen evaluators who can participate in the project evaluation as follows.

Evaluators will determine six target projects based on discussions at the project selection meetings held in June and July, and will also participate in the evaluation of three projects per person.

Please also refer to the Machida City website for details.

Recruitment flyer

Recruitment Details

Application Period

From Friday, May 1 to Friday, May 15, 2026

Number of Recruits

6 high school evaluators, 4 citizen evaluators

Main Application Conditions

・High school evaluators: Those residing or attending school in Machida City

・Citizen evaluators: Those residing in Machida City

Honorarium (including transportation and communication costs)

・High school evaluators: 5,000 yen/day

・Citizen evaluators: 10,000 yen/day

Scenes from the event

Citizen Participation Project Evaluation (Overview)

The Citizen Participation Project Evaluation is a system where evaluator teams, consisting of high school students, citizens, and experts, discuss and evaluate the challenges and solutions of city projects with city project managers. Machida City will proceed with project improvements based on the evaluation results.

Date and Time

Saturday, November 28, 2026, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (tentative)

Number of Projects to be Evaluated

6 projects (to be decided by high school evaluators and citizen evaluators in late July)

Evaluator Team Composition (per 3 projects)

8 evaluators (1 coordinator, 2 experts, 3 high school students, 2 citizens)

About Machida City, Tokyo

Machida City, with a population of approximately 430,000, is located in the southern part of Tokyo, about 30 minutes by train from the city center.

The area around Machida Station is lined with large commercial facilities, and the long-established shopping streets are still thriving. A little further from the station, there is abundant nature, including satoyama landscapes, parks full of greenery, and farmland producing local vegetables.

It is a city where you can enjoy both urban convenience and nature.

Machida City HP

https://www.city.machida.tokyo.jp/

Machida Public Relations Official (X)

https://twitter.com/machida_cp

Machida Child-rearing Site

https://kosodate-machida.tokyo.jp/index.html

Machida City Promotion (Machida City Official) @machida_cp

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/machida_cp/

City Promotion Site https://keeponloving-machida.com/

Machida City Logo Mark "Machida, where good things expand"

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