天神橋筋商店街について(大和高田市本郷町)
Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street (Hongo Cho, Yamato Takada City)
 
 
今 Present

天神橋筋商店街を西側から見た写真です。今もたくさんのお店が並んでいます。
商店街には大きな生鮮市場もあります。出入口が2か所あって、本郷通りからも出入りができます。
This photo shows the Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street seen from the west side. There are still many stores on the shopping street.
A large fresh market can also be found on the shopping street. There are two gateways into the shopping street. You can also enter and exit the shopping street from Hongo Street.

 
昔 Past
 

にぎわう天神橋筋商店街(昭和48年・1973年ごろ)の写真です。
鉄道が通った明治の末から家が建ち始め、紡績工場の発展とともに、昭和の初めには池之丁公設市場と共にお店が並び、賑やかな商店街となりました。昭和30年に、大和高田市で初めてのアーケードが完成しました。
This photo shows the busy Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street (around 1973).
Houses began to be built from the end of the Meiji period, when the railroad was first opened. With the development of spinning mills, many stores also started to open in the Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street as well as in the Ikenocho Municipal Market. By the beginning of the Showa period, the Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street became very lively and filled with various stores and bustling crowds. In 1955, the first shopping arcade in Yamato Takada City was built.


 

昔は映画館もありました。その一つは、天神橋筋商店街にあった高田劇場(昭和30年代・1955年代)です。高田劇場は、明治30年頃に大黒座として開館。大正時代に高田劇場となりました。その後、高田劇場は、スーパーの「なかたに」(昭和43年)となり、さらに「ニチイ」(昭和51年に片塩町に移転)となりました。現在は、生鮮市場になっています。
There were also movie theaters. One of them was the Takada Theater in the Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street (around 1955). The Takada Theater was called “Daikokuza” when it first opened around 1897. In the Taisho period, the theater was renamed the “Takada Theater.” After that, the theater was closed and transformed into Nakatani supermarket (opened in 1968) and Nichii (moved to Katashio Cho in 1976). It is now the fresh market．
 
 
今 Present
 
商店街のお店「ささおか」（金物屋さん）でご主人の笹岡さんにお話を聞きました。
We interviewed Mr. Sasaoka, the owner of the hardware store named “Sasaoka” on the shopping street．

店主　笹岡健司さん（58）のお話　
「昔、子どものころは、現在のような大型店舗はなく、商店街へ行けば毎日のものがそろいました。田舎の人や、吉野からの人も多く大和高田まで買い物にきました。
大和高田市内には商店街は11カ所ありました（40～50年前）が、現在は4～5か所に減っています。
天神橋筋商店街最盛期のお店は50店舗ありましたが、現在（平成28年）は30店舗となりました。店主の平均年齢は70歳と高齢になってきています。」
Interview with the store owner Kenji Sasaoka (58)
“When I was a child, there were no large stores like today, but shopping streets had many stores selling daily necessities. Not only people living in the city but also those in the countryside and in Yoshino came to Yamato Takada for shopping．
In Yamato Takada City, there were 11 shopping streets in the past (40 to 50 years ago) but there are only four to five shopping streets remaining today．
There were 50 stores in the Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street at its peak but there are 30 stores today (as of 2016). Store owners are getting older. Their average age is 70. ”