Canal City Hakata キャナルシティ博多
Opened in 1996 on the site of a disused factory, with a canal running through the middle.
A shopping complex in Hakata opened in 1996 around an artificial canal, with shops, hotels, a theatre and a cinema on five levels around an open-air space.
Fukuoka
Nakasu-Kawabata, Hakata, Yakuin
Uncle from Another World
Seventh volume, pages 57–76: Takafumi and Uncle come here by bus to see, at the cinema, the sequel to the film rented on DVD. You can recognise the pedestrian crossing at the Hakata-keisatsusho-iriguchi junction, the cathode-ray-tube televisions of the Center Walk (still switched on today), the United Cinemas Canal City 13 screen on the fourth floor, the entrance to the toilets with the ceiling on which the manga draws only the hemisphere and not the witch with the cat that is really there, the South Building escalator from behind whose pillar Sawae spies on them, and the entrance to the Nitori where Takafumi discovers he can use transformation magic.
