Ichibangai translates to "Number 1 Shopping Street." It's one of the older shopping complexes in the city (most of the current buildings are maybe only 40-50 years old, though), and it's located right outside of the main train station (which is actually fairly recent. The original Kagoshima City train station is 2 miles farther north.) The problem is that it's not all that popular as a shopping destination; most people would rather go to Tenmonkan, or down south to the big Aeon shopping mall. Tenmonkan is easy to reach by street car, and Aeon is reachable by bus, personal car, or street car (if you're willing to walk half a mile after getting out at the last street car stop). About 1 year ago, Ichibangai tried to attract more shoppers by putting up over 10 trick art posters around the complex, but after no more than a month or so after that, the front of the complex got walled off, and about 1 square block of buildings got torn down. As of the end of November, the construction crews still haven't finished putting in the anti-earthquake foundations for the new buildings. However, new trick art has been placed on some of the walls around the construction zone, and other buildings in the complex. Below are the bigger ones I found (there were some smaller pictures, but they didn't work so well and I didn't bother with them).
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