Abstract
This paper aims to pay its attention to shops with expression functions at a center at Nagahama and Naramachi , and to clarify the quality of life of those shopkeepers and those location trends. Findings are as follows.1)Downtown area residents take a role of running those shops and an expression is one of the advantages of the downtown area residence.2)That quality of life of "interchange" and "will" and "satisfaction" improved after expression is pointed out. 3)At Nagahama, those shops occur with progress of community making, on the other hand Naramachi has the atmosphere that is suitable for creation activity of artists.
