Changing Townscape of Fukui

Sunroad Kitanosho Shopping Street, which is located in the center of Fukui City, close to Fukui Station has changed its landscape a little. The building which you can see in the back of this photograph is the top parts of a brand new emporium "Happiring" which just had its grand opening in front of the west gate of Fukui Station in April, 2016.

"Kaika-tei Kuri-ya" is under construction in Hama-machi area, a short distance from the station. Now, we can see many wooden boxes attached to the outside of the building. This building was designed by Kengo Kuma, who designed New National Stadium in Japan.
Daily dishes and souvenirs will be sold at the "Kaika-tei Kuri-ya". On the left side in the photograph, you can see another restaurant (blackish building of wooden framework), "Kaika-Tei sou-an" which was built in 2008, designed by the same architect Kengo Kuma for the stadium.

Both areas have old buildings. Now that people are planning not to build only new buildings, but they are also planning to use those old ones to make them into sylish stores and/or offices as well. I personally like old things because I feel at ease with them. I'm excited that these areas will become nice streets which will fuse old things with new ones together.

T.S