Minamisanriku Sun Sun Shopping Village

Minamisanriku Sun Sun Shopping Village (南三陸さんさん商店街) is a shopping street in Shizugawa, Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Under the concept of making a shopping street full of smiles and power like the shining sun, it opened as a temporary shopping street on February 25, 2012, and opened permanently on March 3, 2017. It is located in the Shizugawa area where National Route 45 and National Route 398 intersect, on elevated ground raised about 8.3 m after the disaster. It consists of six single-story buildings using Minamisanriku cedar, with 29 stores at opening. Its brand gourmet offering is 'Minamisanriku Kirakira-don'. The shopping street is operated by the Minamisanriku Shizugawa Sun Sun Shopping Association, whose chairman is Daisuke Yamauchi.

Minamisanriku Sun Sun Shopping Village opened as a temporary shopping street on February 25, 2012, under the concept of making a shopping street full of smiles and power like the shining sun. After the disaster, local merchants united and opened the temporary shopping street, and on March 3, 2017, it opened permanently. The permanent shopping street is located in the Shizugawa area where National Route 45 and National Route 398 intersect, on elevated ground raised about 8.3 m after the disaster. It consists of six single-story buildings using Minamisanriku cedar, with 29 stores at opening. The shopping street is operated by the Minamisanriku Shizugawa Sun Sun Shopping Association, whose chairman is Daisuke Yamauchi. The shopping street also hosts disaster storytelling sessions by its shopkeepers.

A reconstruction shopping street in Minamisanriku, Miyagi, Japan, offering local food, seafood, souvenirs, and disaster storytelling.

• Minamisanriku Kirakira-don

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