"Seventeenth episode / Uederaji machi"

The Uradera area of Kyoto, where SOU・SOU stores are now dotted, had a much more seedy atmosphere about 20 years ago when I was still running a street casual shop there.
Drinking houses, manners, games, 24-hour pornographic cinema, ruins buildings, abandoned bicycles, and vagrants.
No young woman came close to us.

I thought that such atmosphere was good in reverse and had 4 shops around that. One day, a real estate agent I met taught me that a three-story tenant building will be built around here. It was between my shop and the shop.
And it is said that tenants' offer has already come. If I asked secretly what kind of business it was, it was a erotic bookstore.

Even though there is a complicated sense of customs around here, if an additional huge erotic bookstore emerges, this area will become more erotic. I thought that this was something I had to do, and as a result of Multicolored efforts, I finally entered the popular select shop in Harajuku, which was my business partner at the time, as a tenant.
It was a dangerous place.

At that time, clothing shops began to be formed little by little, and young people began to walk. One day, the atmosphere of this area Gradient became brighter, and one of the sex shops disappeared to become JAZZ BAR. After a while, the 24-hour porn cinema disappeared and became a used clothing store.
And not only the red-light district, but also the long-established coffee shops and izakayas that we wanted to keep disappeared. They were replaced by furniture stores and clothing stores. Little by little, the abandoned bicycles disappeared, and the homeless people stopped walking around. Before we knew it, Transition from 20 years ago.

And, at the last time, the shop which was the last one was lost. With this, the secret shops became zero in the sect.
He put a period in the battle with the erotic industry of the long back temple.

By the way, the place that was planned to become a three-story adult bookstore is now SOU・SOU Kei-i.


(Continued on next time)



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"The Road to SOU・SOU /Episode 47"

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