Nawate-dōri

The street was made by filling in the southern outer moat of the Matsumoto castle town. After the Meiji era it became an entertainment quarter with many street stalls, and a black market stood here just after the war. A full renovation in 2001 recreated an old-town look, and the frog is the street's symbol, with a statue called Gama Samurai near the main entrance. Beyond Yotsubashira Shrine, shops selling food and small goods line the street, and restaurants gather around Hitotsubashi bridge. The name comes from mizunawate, the line of a surveyor's rope stretched beside the planned moat.