{"id":41189,"date":"2016-05-09T17:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=41189"},"modified":"2016-05-11T08:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T23:59:49","slug":"take-me-home-to-the-okuma-street-shopping-arcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/41189","title":{"rendered":"Take me home to the shopping arcade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Nostalgic flashbacks of your home away from home<\/h1>\n<h2>Okuma Street shopping arcade in the Waseda district<\/h2>\n<p>Okuma Street shopping arcade in the 1940s and 50s. This is where the town and university have engraved the neighborhood&#8217;s history hand-in-hand.<br \/>\n(Photos from: Okuma Street shopping arcade&#8217;s KY Store chairman, Mr. Kenji Yabuuchi)<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-41189 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/okumadori_syotengai_mikoshi_eyecatch-360x270.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/okumadori_syotengai_mikoshi_eyecatch-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/okumadori_syotengai_mikoshi_eyecatch-610x457.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/okumadori_syotengai_mikoshi_eyecatch-720x540.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/okumadori_syotengai_mikoshi_eyecatch.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/okumadori_syotengai_kampai_eyecatch-360x270.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/okumadori_syotengai_kampai_eyecatch-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/okumadori_syotengai_kampai_eyecatch-610x457.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/okumadori_syotengai_kampai_eyecatch-720x540.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/okumadori_syotengai_kampai_eyecatch.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The university&#8217;s history also lies with the Waseda area.<\/p>\n<p>Cozy and nostalgic stores line up along the timeless Okuma Street shopping arcade, a path starting from the footsteps of Okuma Auditorium reaching out to Ground Sakashita station just minutes away from Toei street car&#8217;s Waseda station.<\/p>\n<p>This is home to Waseda students.<\/p>\n<p>Dormitories, diners, bars, coffee houses, mahjong parlors, stationary shops, tailors, and bookstores&#8230; They all support the lives of students and staff as well as enrich the memories of Waseda fans.<\/p>\n<p>The university, together with the community, has also been putting efforts into creating a new scene. Good Morning Cafe Waseda, a charming cafe with an open terrace, launched last autumn. Also, the market federation opened Machiarea to sell lunch boxes on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, walking through this arcade leaves us with reminiscence magically sinking into ours hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, perhaps that&#8217;s because this road reminds us of our own path we crossed back in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nostalgic flashbacks of your home away from home Okuma Street shopping arcade in the Waseda district Okuma Str [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[263,172],"class_list":["post-41189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-campus_scenes-en","tag-history-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41192,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41189\/revisions\/41192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}