It began as a post-war black market: its fishmongers still sell whale meat today.
It began as a black market after the war, and it runs in a curve for three hundred metres while the city around it has been rebuilt on a regular grid. Among its nearly one hundred and thirty shops, the fishmongers still sell whale meat alongside seasonal fish, and at the Inada Kushikatsu fry shop you eat fried skewers standing up. Its nickname is ‘Kobe's kitchen’.
A shopping arcade in Higashiyamachō, in Kobe's Hyōgo district.
🚉 Minatogawa · 5 min walk
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It is one of the two models for the neighbourhood where Rumi's snack bar stands, and sources describe it as ‘practically unchanged’ from the film. The other is the Ninomiya shotengai, 3 km to the east and on the map: pilgrimage lists almost always mention them as a pair.
Sources: seichimap.jp · tamapongift.com · tabicocolo.com · kobekatsu.com
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