Shopping street with arcades in Tokyo

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to make clear the distribution of arcade shopping street in Tokyo city area and investigate its structure and function. In Japan, arcade style was introduced as measure of the activation of shopping street in urban area. In Tokyo, most of arcade shopping centers are located in some centers in the residential are in out of loop line. All of them are located connected wih railway station and composed of various kinds of shops. Based on the friendly relation with residents, competing with large shopping centers.