The purpose of this paper is to figure out historically and theoretically the character of public retail and wholesale center in around the 1920s in Kyoto by focusing on the context of modern commercial and distributive policy change and the context of modern city management and planning. It could be concluded as follows; (1)Public retail was set first as the one of social work programs for the poor in down town, but the character was getting pilot of a good modern retail, and was set strategically around developing suburb in Kyoto. (2)Particularly, after wholesale center was set in 1927, not only public retail but also private retail and wholesale places were all organized and governed in modern hierarchical system of both modern commercial and distributive policy and city management. (3)This change of commercial and distributive policy was related to and supported by the modern city management policy and new city planning in Kyoto.
