Shopping District
Shopping Arcade, Shopping Street
noun
If there are merchandise shops filling the streets, then you must have wandered into a shopping district. Hope you remembered to bring your wallet!
商店街 generally refers to a pedestrian-friendly street or area with lots of local shops and small businesses. Many 商店街 are covered with a roof, in which case they become shopping arcades.
This is a jukugo word, which usually means on'yomi readings from the kanji. If you know the readings of your kanji you'll know how to read this as well.
この商店街には、昔ながらの小さなお店がたくさんあります。
This shopping street has a lot of small traditional shops.
この商店街は観光客にも人気で、いつもにぎわっています。
This shopping street is popular with tourists and is always bustling.
大型店の出店で、昔ながらの商店街がどんどん姿を消しています。
Traditional shopping streets are rapidly disappearing due to the opening of large stores.
ちょっと駅前の商店街のお肉屋さんでコロッケを３個ほど買ってきてくれない？
Could you grab about three croquettes from the butcher shop in the shopping street by the station?