Kyoto Shinkyogoku Shopping Street

Shinkyogoku is the second oldest shopping street in Japan after Asakusa Nakamise in Tokyo. Shinkyoji Dori is a vaulted shopping street extending north and south from Sanjo to Shijo. There are game machine rooms, 100 yuan stores, comic shops, drugstores, various fashion brand clothing stores and various restaurants. In the early days, the Shinkyogoku Shopping Street in the movie city was a street similar to Broadway in New York, and there were many theaters for plays and comedies. Later, with the rise of movies, these theaters gradually turned into movie theaters. The shopping street has also become a movie town in Kyoto City, and it is very lively even late at night, and is loved by residents of neighboring prefectures and cities.