Funabashi's night-time alleys (Nakadōri and Yamaguchi Yokochō) 船橋仲通り商店街・山口横丁
The area, which escaped the bombing, was a black market known as ‘the Shanghai of Japan’.
The area around Funabashi Station, which was not hit by the bombing, became an important freight distribution hub after the war: the black market thrived there to the point of earning the nickname ‘Nihon no Shanhai’ (the Shanghai of Japan), according to the Wikipedia article on the city.
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Keisei Funabashi, Funabashi