Living in Kamitori / Shimotori

The center of life in Kumamoto, where arcade shopping streets continue. It is the easiest place to live without a car, and the density of conveniences is the highest in the city. In exchange, there is no railway station, so you depend on the streetcar, and because it is a commercial district almost no new-build single-person units get built. You have to put up with weekend-night crowds and noise, but in exchange the range of things you can do on foot is overwhelmingly wide.

With shopping streets connected by arcades on a scale among the best in Kyushu, it is the center of life in Kumamoto. The Torichosuji streetcar stop is right in front, and you can walk to Kumamoto Castle. It has the best-equipped conveniences, but in exchange it has the highest rents in the city, and on weekend nights there are many people and a lot of noise. If you are looking for the easiest place to live without a car, this is the benchmark.