Senba

This commercial area covers the northwestern part of Chuo Ward, Osaka City. It is surrounded by the Tosabori River to the north, Nagahori (filled in, National Route 308) to the south, Higashiyokobori to the east, and the filled-in Nishiyokobori to the west (both under the elevated expressway). This street was formed by merchants when Toyotomi Hideyoshi was managing Osaka Castle Town. During the Edo Period, it became the center of commerce as the "head of the national market" and the "restaurant for all provinces." This tradition continues to this day, with Kitahama, which had many money exchange shops, being a securities and trading town, Imabashi and Koraibashi Street being banking towns, Doshomachi being a medicine town, Donbike, Honmachi, and Karamonomachi being textile-related towns, and Minamikyuhojimachi being full of small goods and cosmetics stores. We can see a forest of skyscrapers thanks to three-dimensional land use, such as the Semba Center Building, which was developed under the elevated Chuo Boulevard.

[Setsuo Higuchi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

大阪市中央区の北西部一帯の商業地域。北は土佐堀川、南は長堀（埋立て。国道308号）、東は東横堀、西は埋立てられた西横堀（ともに高速道路高架下）に囲まれた地域。豊臣秀吉(とよとみひでよし)が大坂城下町経営のおり、商人たちを集めて形成した町筋。江戸時代に「天下相場の元方(もとかた)」「諸国の賄所(まかないどころ)」として商業の中心になった。現在もその伝統を継承、両替屋の多かった北浜は証券・商社街、今橋および高麗橋(こうらいばし)通りは銀行街、道修町(どしょうまち)は薬の町、丼池(どぶいけ)・本町・唐物(からもの)町は繊維関係の町、南久宝寺(みなみきゅうほうじ)町は小間物・化粧品店が多い。中央大通りの高架下に整備された船場センタービルなど立体的土地利用から高層ビルの林立をみる。

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