Endōji Arcade (円頓寺商店街) 円頓寺商店街
A covered arcade with about thirty small shops; in July it fills with papier-mâché.
Endōji is a covered shopping street halfway between Nagoya Station and the castle. It began in the early seventeenth century, when the city of Kiyosu was moved wholesale to the foot of the new Nagoya Castle and the merchants followed: the street found itself in the right place, on the Horikawa canal, on the Minoji road and in front of the temples that give it its name. It became a merchants’ association in 1938 and a cooperative in its current form in 1962. Today its website states that there are about thirty shops, some founded in the Meiji period and others new. Since 1956 the street has held its own star festival, tanabata: people hang up strips of paper with a wish written on them, and in 2026 it is the sixty-ninth edition.
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Fushimi, Nagoya, Kintetsu-Nagoya, Marunouchi
