200,000 yen or 300,000 yen will be provided to small- and medium-sized businesses that open a store in a vacant store or office in the city and join a merchants' association or chamber of commerce and industry at the time of opening the store and six months after the opening.
This program is designed to support businesses that contribute to the promotion of industry and the revitalization of the merchants' association by preventing the prolongation of vacant storefronts and supporting businesses that contribute to the revitalization of the merchants' association as well as business startups.

1. Small and medium-sized enterprises, small-scale enterprises, sole proprietorships, or corporations other than companies (Note) Corporations other than companies: Public interest corporations, etc. or corporations deemed to be public interest corporations, etc. under other laws (NPOs, etc.) whose employee size is equivalent to that of small and medium-sized enterprises under the Basic Act on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.
2. Rent or sublease a vacant storefront or office space in the city and start a business between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025.
3. Join a local merchants’ association or the Musashino Central Area Merchants’ Association (Note: In areas where no merchants’ association is organized, join the Musashino Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
4. The business must be expected to continue for at least one year. etc.

Upon application, 200,000 yen or 300,000 yen will be granted at the time of opening a new store (at the start of business), and 200,000 yen or 300,000 yen will be granted six months after opening a new store (after the start of business).

(1) At the start of business: 200,000 yen (300,000 yen for founders)
(2) After 6 months: 200,000 yen (300,000 yen for founders)

※For details on eligible businesses and conditions for receiving the amount, please refer to the Musashino City website.

Musashino City Federation of Shopping Associations

This is a subsidy program for commercial revitalization projects implemented by merchants' associations based on their own ideas.
The subsidy can be received at the time the project is launched.
The purpose of this program is to revitalize local commerce, strengthen the organizational strength of the city's shopping associations, enhance district collaboration, and strengthen cooperation among shopping association members.
With this subsidy, the Gotenyama Fair received approximately 200,000 yen, which was used for fair game materials, game prizes, and event PR expenses.

Events, revitalization projects (e.g., to improve shopping convenience, disseminate information on shopping associations, promote membership in shopping associations, and look out for the elderly)

Subsidy rate: 60-90%, maximum subsidy amount: 200,000-2,000,000 yen
※The subsidy rate varies depending on the type of organization applying.
※As a special exception, in fiscal 2024, the Federation will cover the cost of new projects by subsidizing 100% of the cost of the shopping association, as long as the screening committee approves the project if it is undertaken independently by “a shopping association implementing a small-scale project for the first time or a shopping association that has had no previous experience in the past five years.

Musashino City Federation of Shopping Associations

To promote the creation of a bright shopping district, we subsidize a portion of the amount of electricity for decorative street lights paid by the shopping association.
Thirty-five shopping associations in the city use this program.

• Advertisements, etc. in the name of the merchants’ association or member stores
• Advertisements of public nature
• Other advertisements that the mayor specifically approves

Within 80% of the amount of electricity for street lights paid from April 1 of each year to March 31 of the following year.
※Up to 1,000,000 yen per year per shopping association.

Musashino City Federation of Shopping Associations

Up to 8 projects are used each year.
The purpose of this program is to promote revitalization projects tailored to the actual conditions of each merchant association and community.
At the Onoda Mochitsuki Festival, an event aimed at communicating with local residents around the shopping association was held inside a member store, and children were served freshly pounded rice cakes with three different flavors in a Mochitsuki taiken.
Auxiliary items were glutinous rice, azuki beans, and sugar.

Cooperative organizations of merchants’ associations that are members of merchants’ associations or federations of merchants’ associations

Subsidies will be provided for the purchase of necessary items for events hosted by the shopping district.
The maximum amount per project is 50,000 yen. (Consumption tax and shipping costs are included.)

Musashino City Federation of Shopping Associations

Through lectures by shopping district officials and visits to two shopping districts in Tokyo, participants will learn how to create a shopping district revitalization plan.

Merchants’ association officers and candidates for officers, shopkeepers and those involved in the management of the shopping district.

Free of charge

Tokyo Metropolitan Small and Medium Enterprise Support Center
Management Strategy Division (03-5822-7237)

With the aim of fostering young merchants who will lead the shopping association in the future, various programs are available, including the dispatch of experts, practical seminars to improve management skills, and a shopping mall leader school to learn how to formulate a shopping mall revitalization plan.

Young members of merchants’ associations

Free, accepted at any time

Tokyo Metropolitan Small and Medium Enterprise Support Center
Subsidy Section (03-3251-7894/7895)

The purpose of this program is to revitalize shopping associations by supporting the training and opening of new businesses and business successors in shopping associations.
The program subsidizes a portion of the necessary expenses for opening a business in an area where a shopping association is located.

Individuals who plan to start a business, small and medium-sized enterprises (corporations and sole proprietors)

Office development cost: 2.5 million yen, store rent: up to 150,000 yen/month for the first year, up to 120,000 yen/month for the second year, training course fee: 60,000 yen

Tokyo Metropolitan Small and Medium Enterprise Support Center
Subsidy Section (03-3251-7894/7895)

With the aim of revitalizing shopping associations, TMG subsidizes the expenses of young people (under 39 years old) or women who open a business in a shopping association and provides them with opportunities to sell their products at Challenge Shops.

Young people (39 years old or younger) or women who plan to open a business in a shopping association

Store construction costs: 4 million yen, store rent: up to 150,000 yen/month for the first year, up to 120,000 yen/month for the second year, training fees: 60,000 yen

Tokyo Metropolitan Small and Medium Enterprise Support Center
Subsidy Section (03-3251-7894/7895)