Tenjinbashi-suji Shopping Street
Covered arcade of nearly eight hundred shops stretching two and a half kilometers along an old pilgrim route.
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This guide to Tenjinbashi-suji Shopping Street in Osaka opens in the year 901, when a court scholar named Sugawara no Michizane was exiled from Kyoto and died two years later, followed by a string of disasters back home that his frightened court blamed on his ghost. It traces how that fear turned into a shrine and a god of learning, and how the pilgrim-route market beside it grew into one of Japan's longest covered shopping streets, lined with shops that trace back centuries.
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