Shopping > Kawasaki

• West exit, since 2006 Lazona Kawasaki Plazaラゾーナ川崎プラザ

  Kawasaki · ~5 min · 279 m

  What the west exit is for: a shopping complex joined straight to the station, opening onto a broad plaza set beneath a long roof. It went up in 2006 on the ground of Toshiba's Horikawacho works, raised by the company's predecessor in 1908 and shut in 2000 — the west side was rebuilt in one piece around it.

• Arcade since 1949 Ginryugai Shopping Arcade銀柳街

  A river called the Furukawa was filled in to make this street, which went up after the war as relief work for the jobless. Its arcade roof is genuinely movable — the association opens it for visiting school groups — and the street bills itself as one of flowers and stained glass.

Shops close and move. Nothing here carries hours or prices — check before you set off.

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