Tenjinbashisuji 天神橋筋商店街
2.6 km and about 800 shops: forty minutes of walking under a single roof.
The street began in the Edo period as a settlement in front of the Osaka Tenmangū shrine, which stands in the second block and is dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane, the god of learning. It became today's arcade in the Meiji era. The sources do not agree on the number of shops: the Osaka Chamber of Commerce counts about six hundred, the tourist listings about eight hundred.
Osaka
Ōsakatemmangū, Minami-morimachi;Minami-Morimachi