Shopping street of Sakurai-cho
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- The busy shopping street with a drugstore, a furniture shop in Sakurai-cho.
- Sakurai-cho Street at present. The drugstore still remains. Open spaces are likely to be found easily, but the air in 1962 remains.
Reference sources
- The Edo Period:
The Picture Map of Ashikita-gun, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, the late Edo Period. - The Meiji Period:
The Japanese National Atlas at the end of Edo Period and in the Meiji Period, Kashiwa Shobo, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, 1983.