Umeda Underground Mall - Umeda Underground Mall

Japanese: 梅田地下街 - うめだちかがい
Umeda Underground Mall - Umeda Underground Mall

…The underground spaces of modern cities include basement floors of buildings, subway stations, and underground parking lots, which may be connected to underground shopping malls to form continuous underground towns, and the whole of these may be referred to as underground shopping malls in a broad sense. Japan's underground shopping malls were established before World War II in conjunction with the construction of subways, but they were all small in scale. The largest in terms of area was the former Umeda Underground Shopping Mall in Osaka (completed in 1942, 9,698 m2), but it is still quite small compared to modern ones. …

*Some of the terms mentioned in relation to the Umeda Underground Mall are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…最近の都市の地下空間には,ビルの地下階や地下鉄駅,地下駐車場などがあるが,それらが地下街と結びついて,連続した地下の街を形成している場合があり,それら全体を広義に地下街と呼ぶときがある。日本の地下街は第2次大戦前に,地下鉄の建設に合わせて誕生したが,いずれも小規模なもので,面積では大阪の旧梅田地下街(1942完成。9698m2)が最大であったが,それでも最近のものと比べるとかなり小さい。…

※「梅田地下街」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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