Illustration: At a busy intersection in a Japanese regional town, a covered shopping arcade meets a street lined with a bakery, greengrocer, pharmacy and small bank. Shoppers, office workers and cyclists converge around the crossing, with a bus stopping nearby.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

町まち中なか

machinaka

downtown, town center

Example sentences

  1. 町中まちなか見物けんぶつでもするか？

    Shall we go sightseeing around town?

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  2. 町中まちなかで、珍めずらしい物ものを見みつけました。

    I found something interesting in the town.

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  3. かつては、屋台やたいの「おでん屋や」が夜よるになると町中まちなかに店みせを出だして酔客すいきゃくの憩いこいの場ばとなった。

    In the past, 'Oden ya' stalls opened at nights all across towns and served as an oasis for drunk customers.

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Kanji in 町中

  • 町town; villageOnチョウKunまち
  • 中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる

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