Higashimuki Shopping Street 東向商店街
The name means ‘facing east’: Kōfuku-ji stood there, and the houses were built facing it.
The street runs along the west side of the temple grounds of Kōfuku-ji, in the heart of Nara, and bears the mark of it in its name: a case in which a single religious building determined the shape of an entire shopping street.
Nara
Kintetsu Nara