The paper aims to discuss the characteristics of Dairen Chain-Store Street ‘Rensa-gai’ completed in 1930 in former Dairen occupied by Japan, by three view-points, modern shopping street, composite building with apartment house, and urban development of Dairen. And this study positions it in the history of Japanese colonial architecture in the first half of the 20th century. This study shows that there were three house plans in Chain-Store Street to solve insufficient housing. The built of Chain-Store Street also solved the problem of high land prices in the central district and formed a new central commercial district in Dairen.
