Abstract
The purpose of this study is to make clear the structure with location of commercial facilities, through the analysis with phenomena in areas of southwest HIROSHIMA prefecture, and'to verify the hypothesis what is the process of tendency to locate along the routes and in the remote place. The above phenomena became clear as following two points. (1) It is in progress synthetically that the tendency to locate along the routes with commercial facilities. (2) The tendency for location in the remote place with commercial facilities is in progress, similarly. This tendency is conspicuous about the category of business which located recently, and at the ROUTE-2,54 in HIROSHIMA city, in spatial aspect.