Best Townscapes Spot List

Bukeyashiki Street with the Ashina family's 15,000-koku castle town. The direct descendants of the family still live in one of the upper-class samurai residences.

Street connecting the east exit of Ikebukuro station to Sunshine, lined with numerous shops.

It is an area where restaurants that make you feel the traditional Japanese atmosphere are dotted in the alleys, and it is delightful to walk in the area at night.

A nationally designated Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, overflowing with exotic appeal

This store sells dried products such as bonito, kelp and small sardines — all indispensable to the seasoning of Japanese cuisine.

About 400 shops handling food products, such as fresh seafood and produce, are gathered in this market. It is a very popular spot for visitors from in and out of the country.

A picture of life in Japan perfectly blended into nature

A 670-meter-long shopping street with a variety of small shops.

A cobblestone road thick with the atmosphere of old Osaka

A stone paved street where shops of long standing are lined up, full of Kyoto atmosphere

A unique back street of Akihabara Electric Town, full of stores selling PC peripherals.

Kobe’s Chinatown has many famous specialties

Popular with tourists, check out this shopping district and its old Japan feel

Southern Osaka's hippest place, where the all the trendy young people go

An 800-meter-long shopping street with retractable roof for all-weather shopping. An area that continues to develop while retaining its old-world charm.

Yokohama Chinatown is a business quarter where you can taste authentic Chinese food in Yokohama. It is also popular because you can shop for Asian-styled sundries and souvenirs.

A town that developed near Ise Jingu Shrine

It is a shopping district specializing in food-related specialty shops, and the district stretches about 800 meters from north to south between the Asakusa and Ueno areas.

Akihabara Electric Town or Akihabara Denki Gai is an area crowded with stores that handle various electrical goods. There are many stores that carry anime and figurine-related goods as well.

The main street of Gion features a machiya-style townscape on a cobblestone street