Shinsaibashi-suji (心斎橋筋商店街) 心斎橋筋商店街
It began around 1600 as a street between the Shinmachi neighbourhood and the theatres of Dōtonbori.
The commercial fabric took shape from 1600 onwards along the road that linked Shinmachi and Dōtonbori. Semba was the merchants' neighbourhood built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi around the castle, and in the Edo period it became the commercial centre of the city: ‘built by Hideyoshi, grown under the Tokugawa’. Historically it was a wholesale district for textiles and haberdashery; today wholesale trade has almost disappeared, replaced by retail shops, restaurants and services.
Osaka
Nagahoribashi, Shinsaibashi, Ōsaka Namba
