Shopping Park - Kaimo Koen

...Lumber and woodworking industries have been thriving since ancient times, and the city has a reputation for furniture manufacturing. It is also known as a sake brewing region, and has large pulp and sake brewing factories, and is developing as an inland industrial city. The central shopping street stretching north from Asahikawa Station was the first in the country to be turned into a permanent pedestrian paradise in 1972, and is called Heiwadori Shopping Park. Asahikawa Airport is located in Higashikagura Town, Kamikawa Branch Office, adjacent to the southeast of Asahikawa, but is managed by the city. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Shopping Park" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…古くから製材･木工工業が盛んで，家具製造には定評があり，酒造地としても知られ，パルプ，酒造の大工場があり，内陸工業都市として発展している。旭川駅から北に延びる中心商店街は72年全国に先駆けて恒久的歩行者天国を造成したもので，平和通買物公園と呼ばれる。旭川空港は旭川の南東に隣接する上川支庁東神楽町にあるが，市が管理している。…

※「買物公園」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。

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