SHIBUYA MARKCITY opened in 2000 and the flow of people has changed significantly "Shibuya Chuo Street · Dogenzaka 1-chome Area". However, the yakitori shop hanging red lanterns keeps eaves, old-fashioned townscapes are still alive today. This area originating from Yami City after the end of the war is still full of a little cluttered and energetic atmosphere.
Yakitori lined "Shibuya center Street"
When the painter Shibuya Station is the image from the "South Exit" look at the opposite of the bus rotary, the installed arch of lightning vision enters the eye. There is the entrance to the "Shibuya center Street". Also I heard that Shibuya center street, it may be many people less than convincing. Indeed, although resemble closely the name as the "Center Gai", the difference of the popularity is evident. But, although the flavor varies greatly, it is no doubt an area with also "dark" attractive Shibuya center street. This time, at the center of this Shibuya center street, walked the whole area of Dogenzaka chome surrounded by the national highway No. 246 and Dogenzaka.
The Shibuya center street, a multi-tenant building in a narrow area clamor, a small shop is open huddled. It streets feel somewhere nostalgia. Shibuya of greatly different from the other district, "young people" are rarely shop for. In this fast food restaurant chain is hushed sounds, instead, yakitori and taverns, motsunabe, such as store of red lanterns hung "for dad" has been enhanced. Especially many of the in yakitori, there is also a store of surprise that "24-hour". Ages come and go people also, when compared to such Center Gai, obviously enhanced.
20 years, Shibuya Station of the state of the black city
(Shirane Memorial Shibuya Provincial Museum, Museum of Literature Library)
Reconstruction from the burnt ruins
Such a slightly different atmosphere from other areas is deeply related to the post-war reconstruction. The air raid of World War II brought the entire Shibuya area into a burnt field, but after the war, along with Shinjuku and Ikebukuro, Yami City was born naturally around Shibuya Station, and it quickly became active. Above all, a large number of barracks were built around INOKASHIRA LINE Shibuya Station and Dogenzaka. Perhaps because the US military intended to use it after the war, INOKASHIRA LINE did not receive much damage from air raids, which also helped revive the area. The scene at that time is also reproduced in the 2004 movie "Shibuya Monogatari", which depicts the life of Noboru Ando, who ruled the city of Yami in Shibuya. Since then, the downtown area of Dogensaka 1-chome, which originates from Yami City, has come to be called the "Owada Market" from the place name of Owada-cho at that time. There is still a store named "Owada" in this area such as the fresh produce "Fresh Owada" next to SHIBUYA MARKCITY.
Once "Riki Sports Palace" is a location,
Currently, Humax building is built
Once, to hear this area it was a "professional wrestling of the Holy Land", it may be hard to believe in the flurry. In fact, in the Dogenzaka chome, there was Rikidozan of professional wrestler in 1961 had built "Riki Sports Palace". The facility will not only make the box office of professional wrestling and boxing in the permanent ring, was the entertainment complex that bowling alley and restaurants, cabarets and enter. Shortly buckwheat shop "Takeya" that continue to operate from that time in the vicinity, the disciple of Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba et al. Rikidozan, but so had become a hangout of the young wrestler. Makoto Honma Takeya, since "out of the mother is caring was good, it seems to have become so attached stay young wrestler. I was a child at that time, or taught the skills of professional wrestling, to watch a baseball take There is performed asked or was stored. Inoki's and Baba's other, to came may Dao's and Kintaro Ohki Mr. Yoshimura, a certain time, of Karl Gotch and nemesis Robinson 2 people and it was, "I'm amazed when you visit, look back on those days. In addition, Shiro Suzuki tavern "Senryo" of Shibuya center Street, this talk. "I'm was my grandfather is a tailor. Wrestler is because the body is large, will not be is wearing ordinary suits. So visit good wrestler, had been re-tailoring grandfather is in large size". Currently, the place that had Riki Sports Palace has become in the office building, its surroundings, such as Takeya and Senryo, remaining slightly to the memory of those days now.
Even now also a long time ago, "adults of the city."
"Shibuya center Street" entrance
There are many stores that continue to operate from the old to the Shibuya center street
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Takeya: long-established soba shop continue to be operating at the current location for more than 50 years. Elegant refreshing taste, Rikidozan and the disciple of Antonio Inoki, was loved by a lot of wrestlers such as Giant Baba. |
[KEYPERSON] Koyo Suwa (Corporation loft work Representative Director)
"Shibuya center street, Dogenzaka chome area" around Culture facility
