In 1896 the poet Shimazaki Tōson stayed here and wrote much of Wakanashū.
The name comes from the samurai of the Onamegake group, Date Masamune's escort, who had their lodgings here in the Edo period: from 御名懸組 (Onamegake-gumi) to ‘Namegake-chō’, then ‘Nakakechō’. Today's arcade (granite paving, semi-transparent roof) is the third, finished in 1993, when the street took the nickname ‘Hapina’. In 1896 the poet Shimazaki Tōson stayed here at the Miuraya inn, writing much of the collection Wakanashū.
A covered arcade about 290 metres long, five minutes' walk from the west exit of Sendai Station.
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It is the street where Yuta Okkotsu and Toge Inumaki exorcise a curse, in ‘Jujutsu Kaisen 0’. In the film the arcade has its shutters down; on site it is a very lively shopping street. Not far away, on the Marble Road Ōmachi arcade, the Matsumoto Kiyoshi shop where Inumaki does his shopping has been renovated and is no longer recognisable.
Sources: anitabi.jp · note.com · nakakecho.jp · sendaitanabata.com
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