The arcade is 19.5 m high and copied from the Galleria in Milan: 50,000 passers-by a day.
A shōtengai is a covered shopping street, and here there are three in a row. The Vlandome arcade, from 1993, is 19.5 metres high and modelled on the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II; the one next to it, Sunmall, is 13.7 metres and was the tallest in Japan from 1986. From beneath those glass roofs two yokochō open off, the narrow alleys of small shops: Bunka and Iroha, which are the exact opposite.
🚉 Aoba-dori Ichibancho · 5 min walk
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The historic footwear shop ‘Mukadeya’, founded in 1934 and located here, is the model for the ‘Mukade Footwear’ shop where Kira Yoshikage takes his clothes to be repaired in the manga.
Sources: loco.kufu.jp · travelbook.co.jp · ja.wikipedia.org · sendaitanabata.com
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