town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord
port city; harbor city; harbour city
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
neighboring town; neighbouring town; adjacent town
(Edo-period) town magistrate
inn town; post town; post-station town
town girl; girl raised in a town
Muromachi period (1333-1573)
outskirts (of a town); edge (of a town); just outside the city limits
townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family
small factory in town; backstreet (small) workshop
Muromachi period (1333-1573)
the whole town; all over the town; throughout the town
physician in private practice; (arch.) town doctor; (arch.) doctor who served the townspeople (as opposed to the emperor, a daimyo, etc.)
back street; back alley; slums
Muromachi shogunate (1336-1573)
basic Chinese restaurant; hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant
revitalization of a town; town renewal (project)
sponsors of rikishi or their stables
town originally built around a temple or shrine
red-light district; prostitution quarter; geisha quarter
martial arts school situated in a town
hot-spring resort; onsen town; spa town
town planning; urban development; community development; creating a community
hamachi; young Japanese amberjack; young yellowtail
senior town administrator (Edo period)
Edo-period official of the chōnin social class; town official
walking about town; stroll around town; walking the streets (e.g. for exercise)
street with houses lined up only on one side
persons organized into gangs and wearing flashy clothes, who styled themselves as "chivalrous men" (Edo period)
town elder (Edo period); town leader; alderman
town geisha; geisha not working in a red-light district
Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)
Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)
working-class accent or dialect
town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)
women's pavilion (of the inner Heian palace)
public bath located in a city or town
town order (Edo period); order issued by a shogun or daimyo affecting a whole town, and passed on by town officials
the friendly atmosphere of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods
Omachi rice; late growing wet-land rice variety, often used in sake production
assisting town official (Edo period)
the warm feelings of people of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods
Machimura Faction (of the LDP)
street festival; street fair
Japanese foliage spider (Chiracanthium japonicum)
important local businessmen (in the Muromachi period); local leaders
tori-no-machi (held at Ōtori Shrine on each day of the Rooster in November)
Motomachi Station (Hyōgo)
Shinmachi Station (Gunma)
Gofukumachi Station (Fukuoka)
Sakuramachi Station (Nagano)