Sunroad Shinshigai (サンロード新市街) サンロード新市街
Eighteen metres, the widest arcade in Japan; the Denkikan cinema came here in 1914.
The neighbourhood began in 1903. In 1911 the 電気館 (Denkikan), the city's first permanent cinema, opened in Kumamoto, and in 1914 it moved here: others came after it, and for decades this was the street of cinemas. Multiplexes have closed almost all of them (the latest competition is a TOHO multiplex opened in 2019 in the SAKURA MACHI complex next door), but the Denkikan has stayed, inside the arcade, and is the only survivor. The first roof dates from 1979, the current one from 1992; the street measures 236 metres by 18.
Kumamoto
Sakura Machi Bus Station
