Best Townscapes Spot List

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

One of Kobe's busiest areas

Every day's a festival at this shopping street

This is a Korean town where both Japanese and Korean shops are gathered. It is brimming with an exotic atmosphere where you can enjoy authentic Korean food, cosmetics, and culture.

A street that feels like it’s from the Edo Period

A picture of life in Japan perfectly blended into nature

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.

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.

Some thirty establishments form a beacon of Ainu culture

An irregular five-forked intersection near Otaru Music Box Museum

One of Hokkaido's oldest and finest shopping streets

The early 20th century comes alive on this street of restaurants

Travel back in time to the frontier age

New, yet nostalgic. The station shopping arcade is a mix of older shops with history, and stylish, newer shops.

A promenade of zelkova, now as the symbolic road of Sendai, the city of forests. It is also popular in winter when it is lit up.

At 1.3 km long, Togoshi Ginza Shopping Street is one of the longest such streets in the Kanto area. Some 400 shops as well as many events including food fairs.

A good old-fashioned shopping district with 70 older shops and a shitamachi (downtown) atmosphere.

This is an area where you can find all kinds of antique books. There are shops with new books as well.

A wholesale district with a variety of specialty shops selling everything from traditional Japanese dolls, to displays for shop windows, toys and stationery.

Midosuji takes its name from the Kita Mido Hall and the Minami Mido Hall, which are branch temples of Higashi Hongan-ji Temple and Nishi Hongan-ji Temple located by the roadside. As the face of Osaka, this grand boulevard runs through the city's heart and entertainment area and is lined with banks, trading company buildings, and hotels. Stretching 44 meters wide, the road extends four kilometers southwards from the front of Hankyu Department Store beside Osaka Station to Namba Station. The road is lined with four rows of gingko trees, whose leaves turn a beautiful yellow in autumn.