2022 Volume 20 Pages 33-36
This study quantitatively clarified changes in the location of commercial stores and the types of businesses in the central city areas of Kainan City, Tanabe City, and Kushimoto Town, where a tsunami from a Nankai Trough earthquake is expected to occur. The results showed that the total number of stores in the central city area has already decreased by 80% in the last 10 years, and that almost all types of businesses are in decline. The largest number of both closures and relocations as well as new locations were found in the food and beverage industry. The number of stores that have continued to exist since 1980 was found to account for 30~40% of the total number of stores in all three municipalities. In addition, when we examine the location transition and business type of these stores, we find that while many of the stores in both "continued locations and "closed/relocated" were in the shopping malls, there were differences among the other types of businesses in the three municipalities. Based on the above, we discussed policies that should be addressed in the preliminary recovery plan.
