Best Townscapes Spot List

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.

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.

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.

Every day's a festival at this shopping street

A complex with a tree-like architecture combining public and private facilities.

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.

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

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

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

An irregular five-forked intersection near Otaru Music Box Museum

One of Hokkaido's oldest and finest shopping streets

Travel back in time to the frontier age

Some thirty establishments form a beacon of Ainu culture

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.

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

This is a shopping avenue with a retro presence. Its morning market held on the fourth Sunday every month is popular.

A charming shitamachi (downtown) shopping street lined with takeout shops, candy shops, izakaya (bars) and more.

Nihonbashi is a town where traditional Japanese and modern cultures are woven together, where you can experience the charms of Japan.

An alley roughly 300 metres from Ningyocho, named Amazake Yokocho after a shop selling sweet sake.