抄録
1. Retail market area is distinguished from other market area. Because its areal extention is restricted by distance and time, as the customers the-mselves go to the shops. The market area. of a large city extends widely, so the small market area of its adfacent local trade center is included in the large market area and cannot exist independently. In this report the general relation between Kyoto and the adjacent trade center on the San-in Line ie geographically treated.
2. The market area of Kyoto reanhes to the hounadary of Funai-gun, running at about one, hour and forty minutes distance from Kyoto by train. Therefore the market areas of local towns such as ieoka, Yogi and Sum be are included in the large market area of Kyoto.
3. But generally the gravitation of the retail market of Kyoto is stronger than any local center. That is, Kyoto attracts. 56.4% of all customers in them area, and. Sonobe 13.6% Kameoka 11.1.%, Yagi only 5.7% The above mentioned phenomenon is caused by richness in variety and superiority in quality of the commodities in Kyoto. The local centers have only inadequate shopes to fulfill the shopping desire of customers.
4. Many of them, shop food-commodities (higher class) at the local centers, but they buy clothes and furnitures, in spite of their large volniiie, in Kyoto.
5. Shopping in Kyoto is promoted by quick and favorable transportation by rail from their habitation to Kyoto. These are the factors in the wide coverage of the market area of Kyoto along the San-in Line.
