Shintenchi district as an amusement quarter has begun in the middle of Meiji Era as "Kanshouba", a commercial promoting zone, and developed in Taishou Era into the representative urban amusement quarter in Hiroshima. The district was located behind the main traffic street of the castle town Hiroshima in Edo Era and mainly composed with the lots for Samurai residences. The joint-stock corporation Shintenchi co. has collected a lot of complicated lots and designed a modern amusement quarter with three big theaters and many shops integrated through subtle lane-network. This paper has reconstructed three stages of allotment of this district, and discussed how the allotment formed since Edo Era were transformed and utilized into the modern space for the urban amusement, which was inherited as one of the central commercial and amusement district in Hiroshima after WWII.
