Furumachi (Niigata)

<Niigata City<Chūō-ku

nihongo|Furumachi|古町 Furu-machi, literally meaning "Old Town", is the name of a central business district in Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The district is centered around Furumachi-dori street ( which runs southwest to north-northeast ) and extends east to Honcho-dori street and west to Nishibori-dori street (both streets are parallel to Furumachi-dori). Furumachi is located on left bank of Shinano River and west-northwest of the Bandai Bridge. It is one of two major commercial areas of Niigata, the other being Bandai City north of the river.

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This circumference was a list that followed three capitals (Kyoto, Osaka, and Edo) in 'Asosat licensed quarters official ranking list' that had been written in the licensed quarters in eminent Japan at the beginning of Edo period before. When the ship came to make a port call to the Niigata port by moated in the city being maintained before the north, the region brought dramatic improvements in further before long.

The influence of the conflagration of law revision and the city also waits for the aspect, the licensed quarters moves, and traditional Japanese arts has changed into the demimonde at the center when becoming the Meiji era. It becomes until being called Shinbashi, Gion, and the row three major flower street at the beginning of the Showa era, and 12 high-level restaurants do business now. It is a shop of old standing restaurant where both Niigata is represented.

It is called the willow capital from planting the willow tree on the edge of the moat in the city before. The water quality of the moat deteriorates because a large amount of life wastewaters flowed out from the generation of the subsidence by the natural gas mining and the incompleteness of the drainage net to the moat. In addition, a lot of name of a places to which the moat such as the west moat experts and the east moat expert adheres have been left around the moat before though it reclaimed from the restraint of the Niigata national constitution in 1964, and the urge of the necessity of the improvement of securing a traffic road and the hygienic condition of the town to about the end of 1955's from all moats.

The street consists of the road that is called orthogonal "Alley" in the road and this that is called "Street" that runs side by side with the town expert of old. The shopping arcade extends, and because a large-scale shop at the tenant building and the department store, etc. lines with the shop and the specialty store, etc. from old times few compared with the thousand generation, the character such as the shopping street, the fashion streets, and the eating and drinking streets is strong according to the old town now.