Street in Asakusa claimed as longest shotengai in Japan

Four street associations around Tokyo's popular Asakusa tourist district have joined together to promote what they claim is the longest shopping street in Japan. The four associations, whose streets form an approximately 3 km-long thoroughfare in Tokyo's Taito Ward, established Tokyo Kokusai-dori Shinko-kai in November, a committee to promote the thoroughfare as Japan's longest "shotengai," or shopping street. Stretching approximately north-south between the districts of Minowa and Kuramae, Japan's so-called longest shopping street, according to Tokyo Kokusai-dori Shinko-kai, follows the …READ FULL ARTICLE