Article in English Shops, Shrine and River

You had better to walk this street, feeling as if you were a little child with full curiosity. Then you would find so many things joyful.
You would see the open sky over the low rooves along the street upwards and the pavement under your foot downwards. Behind the shops runs the river. You would feel a sense of release.

It may be interesting to lay your eyes on the paths crossing Nawate-dori. Among them I recommend to get into Nawate-Yokocho along which many tiny popular restaurants, home cook, Yakitoriya and Yakinikuya or so, are standing side by side.
As the street is crossing the approach-way to Yohashira Shrine, it's fun walking around the precincts of it. Yohashira means, immediately the four pillars, four great gods who formed Japan country in ancient myth.
Or would you like to walk down to the shore of Metoba-gawa, for there are several stairways down there ?

  小さな店が並ぶこの通りを小学生の頃のような好奇心いっぱいの気分で歩いてみる。楽しそうなものがいろいろ目に飛び込んでくる。
  背の低い家並みの上には大空が広がり、足元は石畳。通りの裏は川。開放感があふれている。

▲古道具屋店　店頭は雑多な品物でにぎやか
▼中の橋を渡り縄手通りを横切る小路

  女鳥羽川を渡り縄手通りを横切る小路に目をやるのも面白い。
  四柱神社の境内を歩いたり、女鳥羽川の河床（河川敷）に下りてみるのも悪くない。

▲小さな店舗の裏は川。河岸段丘の下は女鳥羽川

▲小さな飲食店が並ぶ縄手横丁
  通りを横切る小路のなかに縄手横丁がある。この小径には、小料理屋、焼き鳥屋など庶民的な小さな店が軒を連ねる。

▲対岸から神社を望む　右手の橋は幸橋

  縄手通りから女鳥羽川の河床に下りる階段はあちこちにあって、河床は親水公園でもある。河岸道路の散策もまた楽しい。

▲橋のたもとには河床に下りる階段

▲鳥居の近くにある洒落た水場