A fully covered shopping arcade, with shops and small restaurants on both sides.
What Osu looks like
is a fully covered arcade, with a roof over the walk and shopfronts on both sides. Lights hang under the arcade roofs. Some shops put goods on racks on the tiled pavement. Bright signboards and hanging banners line the walk too.
The district spreads across the 2nd and 3rd chome, south of Sakae. Aichi Now counts about 1,200 shops and facilities in it. Set-meal restaurants and coffee shops sit among long-running ui-ro confectioners. Antique and second-hand clothing shops stand beside discount electronics stores. Subculture shops, including a manga shop, stand among them.
and are shopping streets in the same district. The Niomon-dori street sign hangs on the same pole as a traffic light. Akamon-dori is one of nine shopping streets there. It becomes a pedestrian zone for a monthly event on the 28th.
, a Shingon temple, sits a few hundred metres from the arcade. stands between them. Its name is cut in stone at the entrance.
Shot in Osu
Mr. Baseball (1992) shot Jack's visits to local shrines at the marketplace near Osu Kannon temple. Nagoya's location database also lists nine Japanese television dramas and four films on the shopping street, including the NHK Nagoya drama 全力離婚相談 and the Tokai TV one-off drama ただいま、大須商店街.
Mr. Baseball, 1992
Fujisengen Shrine
Jack prays and rings the bell at Fujisengen Shrine around the 47-minute mark. A deleted scene also uses the shrine. The scene moves to the temple and its shopping arcade at 48 minutes.
What Osu can double for
Nishikikōji in Kyoto, Japan
Nishiki Market is a narrow arcade about 400 metres long, with a canopy over the walk and roughly 130 shops selling fresh food and dry goods. It matches Manshoji-dori in covered scale, with a similar run of eateries and food shops. The cobbled paving and the produce stalls give Nishiki away, so tighter frames of the shopfronts hold the illusion better than wide shots. Try searching covered market arcade now.
Hondōri in Hiroshima, Japan
Hondōri was reconstructed in the 1950s as a shopping arcade running from Hatchōbori to Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park. It is a postwar rebuilt shopping street like the Osu arcade, though today its arcade looks modern. Modern frontages and signage need dressing out. The Peace Memorial Park at one end is a landmark that a wide shot would pick up. Try searching postwar shopping arcade now.
