Japan Markets & Shopping Streets Coloring Book

About this book

Sixty real markets and shopping streets of Japan — the marketplaces themselves, each one ready to color.

Other coloring books give you invented street scenes. This book colors Japan's real trading places, in their real views: Sapporo's dawn fish lanes at Nijo Market, the covered stalls of Kushiro's Washo Market, Kyoto's Nishiki Market — the kitchen of the old capital — Osaka's Tenjinbashisuji, the longest shopping street in Japan, the lantern lanes of Hachinohe Yokocho, and the market halls of Naha where Okinawan cooking begins.

Every subject appears as a two-page spread: on one side, a full-color guide — a photograph of the market or street today — with a short story of the place (what is sold there, who shops there, the sounds and smells of the lanes, and exactly how to color it); on the other side, a detailed coloring page of the very same view, converted from the real photograph so the scene you color is the scene itself.

Inside you will find: • The great fish markets — Tsukiji Outer, Nijo, Omicho, Kuromon Ichiba, Tanga and Makishi • Morning markets and harbor lanes — Sendai Asaichi, Miyagawa in Takayama, Furukawa in Aomori • The covered arcades — Tenjinbashisuji, Shinsaibashisuji, Sannomiya Center Gai, Takamatsu's eight-street network, Hamanomachi • Temple-gate and shrine streets — Nakamise at Asakusa, Zenkoji Omotesando, Dazaifu Omotesando • Famous shopping streets — Ginza, Motomachi Yokohama and Kobe, Takeshita, Shimokitazawa, Kokusai-dori • 60 full-color guides with the story of each marketplace (81–100 words each) • None of these sixty markets and shopping streets appeared in our previous Japan coloring books

Sixty marketplaces that fed Japan's cities for centuries — bring pencils, and take your time.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.