Landmark
Tanukikoji Shopping Street
〒060-0062 Hokkaido, Sapporo, Chuo Ward, Minami 2 Jōnishi, 4-chōme 南2・3条西1～7丁目
Covered arcade of nearly two hundred shops where a raccoon-dog shrine sits steps from game centres and pachinko parlours.
This guide to Tanukikoji Shopping Street in Sapporo starts with a woman pressing her palm to a stone raccoon dog's belly, and the merchants who named this downtown arcade after him in 1873. It follows the old folklore of a tanuki who could fatten a fortune wrapped in his pelt, the shrine built for the arcade's hundredth birthday, and the game centers and pachinko parlours that now share the block with it. Rub the raccoon's belly on your way past, then keep walking toward the arcade games a few doors down.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.