Shopping Street
Shopping Arcade
noun
A merchandise shop street is a street with all kinds of shops and merchandise on it. Sounds like a lot of shopping goes on here in this shopping street!
商店街 generally refers to a pedestrian-friendly street lined with lots of local shops and small businesses. When the 商店街 is covered with a roof, it can also be called a shopping arcade.
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?