Street Spots in Japan

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Category

Travel / Tourism

Other Sightseeing

Street

Shin-Umeda Shokudogai

Travel / Tourism

Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Kakudachou 9-26

This restaurant quarter is located under the railway girders between Hankyu Department Store on the east side of JR Osaka Station and Hankyu Umeda Station. 18 shops were opened in 1950 as a relief project for retirees of facilities related to the former Japanese National Railways. There are now approx. 100 restaurants including Japanese cuisine, western cuisine, Chinese cuisine, standing bars and fast food restaurants that are bustling with customers every day.
Katsuura Morning Market

Travel / Tourism

Katsuura City, Chiba Prefecture

Katsuura Morning Market is held near the main shopping streets in the Hamakatsuura district of Katsuura City, around 10 minutes’ walk from Katsuura Station. This market has a long history, dating back to 1591, and is one of the famous sights of Katsuura. Nowadays, the Morning Market is held on Asaichi Road in Shimohon-cho from the 1st to the 15th of each month, and on Asaichi Road in Nakahoncho from the 16th until the end of the month. The wide range of items on sale at the Morning Market includes seasonal agricultural produce, fresh fish and seafood, processed foods and handicrafts, etc. The Morning Market beings at around 6:00 a.m. and ends at around 11:00 a.m.; it is closed on Wednesdays and on New Year’s Day (January 1st).
Omiya Bonsai Village

Travel / Tourism

Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Kita-ku Bonsaichou

Omiya Bonsai Village is a place full of outstanding bonsai plants that is located a few minutes' walk from the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum. Omiya Bonsai Village traces its origins to the period immediately after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, when a group of bonsai growers from Tokyo relocated to the Omiya area; at its peak, Omiya Bonsai Village had around 30 commercial bonsai gardens. Today, there are still five bonsai gardens in the village, each cultivating its own unique types of bonsai. Some of the gardens offer bonsai-growing experience activities. Omiya Dai Bonsai Festival is held on May 3-5 every year, attracting large numbers of bonsai enthusiasts from Japan and overseas.
Nishi Chaya District

Travel / Tourism

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Nomachi

This area once flourished as a licensed chaya (traditional place of feasts and entertainment by geisha) district of the Kaga Clan and is still an area with Japanese restaurants and geisha houses lining the streets. It is located on the west side of “Saigawa River” in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. The chaya style town houses with impressive lattices line the streets, and the atmosphere of traditional pleasure quarters refusing first-time customers without introduction remains. It is the town where the Taisho period novelist Seijiro Shimada, who wrote the best-selling novel “On the Ground” at the age of 20, spent his childhood. In the “Nishi-Chaya Museum,” visitors can see material on Seijiro Shimada and a reproduction of a Japanese style room of chaya.
Sugamojizou-Dori Shopping Center

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Toshima-ku Sugamo

Located in Tokyo’s Toshima City, this shopping street goes by another nickname, “Harajuku for grandmothers.” Protected by two jizo (guardian deities), Togenuki Jizo and Edo Rokujizo, this has gained popularity among the elderly as a town for business and a town for faith. Red underwear, shio-daifuku, and hand-cooked sembei rice crackers are just some of the many popular products for the elderly, and the town is quite busy on a daily basis.
Minami-aoyama Kotto-dori

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Minato-ku Minami-aoyama
Kanmon Tunnel Footpath

Travel / Tourism

Fukuoka Kitakyushu-shi Moji-ku

A 780-meter long subterranean pedestrian tunnel that connects Kitakyushu City in Fukuoka Prefecture and Shimonoseki City in Yamaguchi Prefecture. From the entrance you'll take an elevator underground where you can then cross the under the Kanmon Strait on foot. Midway you'll pass an underwater sign marking the prefectural boundaries, an uncommon sight in Japan. By showing the commemorative stamps available on either side of the tunnel you'll receive the Kanmon TOPPA! Commemorative Certificate.
Sky Street

Travel / Tourism

Aichi Pref. Nagoyashi Nakamura-ku Meieki 1-1-4 JR Central Towers 15F

This aerial street is located in the JR Central Towers complex in Nagoya Station. It is 15 stories above ground level, giving a breathtaking nighttime view of the area in front of Nagoya Station from 70 meters up.
Harmonica Alley

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Musashinoshi Kichijoujihonchou 1

Just after exiting Kichijoji Station you’ll come across this shopping area with a series of narrow alleys. Its roots lie in a market that opened up in front of the station in 1945. Close to 100 tiny shops are packed into the area of all sorts of genres, including restaurants, clothing shops and shops selling miscellaneous goods. This is a fun place to visit on a stroll around Kichijoji, and the locals recommend trying shoronpo (steamed buns) or taiyaki as you walk through the intricate passageways.
Nawate-dori Street

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Matsumotoshi Ote 4-3-21

This is a shopping area between the southern moat of Matsumoto Castle and the Metoba River, named Nawate-dori Street since it has a long bank much like a rope. It is the reimagining of an Edo period castle town, with 50 shops lined up selling items like antiques and cheap sweets. The area is dotted with stone statues of the Nawate-dori Street symbolic frog, and it is a popular shopping spot just to walk around for both adults and children.
Natsumezaka Street

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Shinjuku-ku Kikuicho

"A slope passing to the southeast of Kikuicho's Raikoji Temple starting at Waseda Station on the Tozai Line. Natsume Soseki was born in the neighborhood in 1867. It got its name from his father, Naokatsu, an important landowner who took to calling it by his own name. This eventually caught on and became official. Towards the Ushigome Health Center you can find the site of Soseki Sanbo, where the author spent the later years of his life. It later became a municipally run apartment building, and today there's the small Soseki Park there. Its ""Neko Zuka (cat mound),"" a memorial to deceased cats, dogs, and pet birds, was installed together with a bust of Soseki."
Oharai-machi

Travel / Tourism

Mie Pref. Iseshi Ujinakanokirichou

This is an 800-meter stone-paved street that follows the Izusugawa River from Ise Jingu Naiku’s Ujibashi Bridge. Full of shops with the gables and hipped roofs of the tsumairi architectural style, the area is bustling with tourists. The flagship store selling Ise’s famous confection “akafuku” (anko-coated mochi) as well as many shops offering souvenirs are located here, and taking a stroll here after worshipping at the shrine is recommended. On this street visitors can find historical structures such as the Jingu Dojo and Saishu Shokusha, and enjoy an overall ambience that is very representative of O-Ise-San.
Kanmon Tunnel Pedestrian Walkway (Shimonoseki Exit)

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Shimonoseki-shi-Fukuoka Kitakyushu-shi Moji-ku
Perry Road

Travel / Tourism

Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture

There is a small pathway called “Perry Road” which is located about 10 minutes on foot from Izukyu Shimoda Station. This small pathway which continues from Ryosenji Temple to Shimoda Park for about 500 meters is the path which Admiral Perry marched down when he concluded the Shimoda Treaty between Japan and America in the late Edo period. It is a beautiful street with impressive stone pavements and stone buildings, and with shops and cafes standing side by side, this area engenders an atmosphere which brims with an exotic ambience.
Sotobori Park (Hakuchoro)

3.5

7 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Ishikawa Kanazawa-shi

A walking course which extends from Kanazawa Castle Park’s Ishikawa Gate toward the Otebori Moat. The course was created in 1984 to serve as a “path for the contemplation, water and greenery.” Sotobori Park is located where the moats of Kanazawa Castle originally were during the Edo period. Records state that they were filled in in the Meiji period and opened to the general public as a park. The park serves as a space where city residents and tourists can rest and relax, and in the spring visitors can take in cherry blossoms, while in the summer they can go firefly watching. This path is one of only a few spaces in the city where one can observe fireflies living in the wild. An event called the Firefly Spotting Nights by Hakuchoro Street is held in most years in early June, and during this time all are welcome to come and watch the fireflies, the only light being that of small lanterns placed on the ground.

金沢城の東寄りを南北に結ぶ遊歩道です。大手堀近くには白鳥の像があります。もともとはお堀で水鳥がいたのが由来みたいですね。路の途中には金沢に関わりのある人物などのモニュメントもあり、歩いていて飽きない路でした。
Patchwork Road

Travel / Tourism

Biei-cho, Kamikawa-gun, Hokkaido

A farm road sandwiched between National Routes 237 and 452. Surrounded on both sides by gentle hills and fields, each field is planted with different crops, creating a patchwork of colors which led to the road coming to be called Patchwork Road. The beautiful scenery resembles a rural European landscape and has frequently been used to film television commercials. The area is also known for its constantly changing appearance-the colors of the fields change depending on the season and crops grown.
Shiodome Sio-Site District 5 Italian Town

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Minato-ku Higashishimbashi 2

One of the districts of Shiodome Sio-Site, a large-scale urban project in Higashi-shimbashi, Minato City, Tokyo. The district is host to residential buildings and facilities such as offices, restaurants, and an off-track betting hall. The buildings and structure of the townscape surrounding the central plaza are all designed based on an Italian theme.
Tsukuba Kasumigaura RingRing Road

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Tsuchiura-shi Kasumigaura Namegata-shi Hoka
Sugi no Baba Street

4.0

1 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Fukuoka Pref. Asakurashi Akidukinotori

A road in Asakura City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Known as the ''Little Kyoto of Fukuoka,'' this former castle town area is surrounded by mountains and pure streams. Extending out from the Akizuki Castle Ruins, the road is lined with some 200 cherry trees on either side which form a gorgeous 500-meter-long tunnel of blossoms in spring, making the area a top cherry blossom viewing destination. The Akizuki Spring Festival is also held here in April. At night, the area is lit up with electric lights, giving visitors the chance to enjoy a magical landscape quite different from that of the daytime.

秋月エリアの観光スポットのうちのひとつです。今回は紅葉の時期に訪れましたが説明パネルに桜の時期がきれい、といったことが書かれており、春には春でまた違う景色を見ることができるんだろうなと思いました。桜の並木道です。
Yugurena Mall

Travel / Tourism

Okinawa Pref. Ishigakishi Okawa 208

Ishigaki Island’s Yugurena Mall is a bustling location with over 100 shops available, including pubs and souvenir stores. There are stores that offer fresh fish and dressed meat, as well as the Ishigaki City Public Market on the third floor, which contains a dining hall. With several shops offering general goods, accessories, and local goods, this is a great place to go hunting for souvenirs and eat while taking a leisurely stroll.