Kōkashita(Motokō) Shopping Mall under Viaduct, Moto-machi, Kobe City

 Shopping malls under Viaducts actually are common things as you know. Today, each station has a supermarket or restaurant mall as a part of the raiway station building in Japan. Meanwhile, Motokō
was/is known well as Asian chaotic place in the central Kobe City. There were/are small shops jam-packed under the viaduct of JR, many fishy stores opened there once. This shoping mall has the roots in the black market right after WW2. Those fishy stores are disappearing year by year in various reasons, but several mysterious stores still open on the dim western tip. Land owner JR definitely wants to clean-up this area, but hard-core shopkeepers resist it.
I don't know weather it is good or bad to preserve a piece of the dark history, so I just took some photos of the lively eastern area to show here.

  Railways run above this narrow mall, and clattering over.

Suddenly mall is interrupted with light-controlled crosswalk. 

 This area is popular with the young for reason of reasonable prices. Cheap rent appeals to young ventures, too. Personaly I think it is key to revive this viaduct's area.  Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.