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The area near JR Toyooka Station is also nice for walking around. In front of the station is Aity, a shopping complex. Where I went for groceries and dinner.
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The street in front of Toyooka Station is lined with shops too. Sun Stork Avenue.
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Always a reminder of what this city is famous for. Oriental white stork tiles on the sidealk.
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Kimono shop.
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The sidewalk lined with shops have a roof so we're okay even on rainy days.
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Toyooka City Hall
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Toyooka City Hall
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Vintage building housing a restaurant.
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Tobacco shop selling cigarettes. This kind of shop will likely become obsolete in Japan.
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Toyooka in Hyogo Prefecture is a major producer of bags. Thier local bus even has a bag design.
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Toyooka's bag bus.
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Walk until you reach Caban Street. "Caban" or "kaban" means "bag." Not shopping bag, but ladies' bags, briefcases, etc.カバンストリート
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Caban Street is lined with several bag shops. カバンストリート
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Toyobra bag shop on Caban Street.
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Toyobra bag shop on Caban Street.
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Caban Street in Toyooka, Hyogo. カバンストリート
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Caban Street's most prominent bag shop is this one called Artisan Avenue. The front has a woven basket motif. Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture.
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How Toyooka became a bag-producing city.
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Artisan Avenue sells high-end bags of all kinds made in Toyooka. These ones are similar to the ones that were first made in Toyooka.
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There are many bag companies here, most are high-end bags costing tens of thousands of yen. Some of them supply materials to world-famous bag makers.
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Nice bags at Artisan Avenue.
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Insde Artisan Avenue.
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Another bag shop on Caban Street.
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Caban Street also had this place to repair or clean your bag.
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Caban Street also had this place to repair or clean your bag.
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On the left is a cloth bag vending machine.
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On Caban Street, this drink vending machine designed like a bag. Toyooka, Hyogo.
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Even the mail box on Caban Street is designed like a bag...Their official website: http://cabanst.com/
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