It looks like “Kawashita Sekizaiten” is scheduled to open around mid-February next year along Sakura Sando in Asahigaoka-cho.
↑A NEW OPEN notice was posted. Their main store appears to be located along the JR Kobe Line tracks in Maedacho.
↑Exterior of the planned “Kawashita Sekizaiten” location. This is where the “Kobe Shimbun Ashiya Tobu exclusive sales office” used to be.
Here’s the map↓
The address is 28-27 Asahigaokacho, Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture.
Area around the new “Kawashita Sekizaiten” store
↑It’s along Sakura Sando, right by the intersection with Miyagawa Keyaki-dori. To the right is the former location of “Negibozu.” (It closed last July.)
↑If you go this way (south), you’ll reach Miyagawa Keyaki-dori.
↑If you go the other way (north), you’ll find “ASAHIGAOKA TAKAHASHI DENTAL CLINIC” and the specialty tea shop “Uf-fu.”
↑On the back side of the same building, facing Miyagawa Keyaki-dori, there’s “Tempura & Wine Ashiya Iwai.”
Finally
Screenshot from the Kawashita Sekizaiten official website
“Kawashita Sekizaiten” is a locally rooted stonework shop said to have been founded around 1908 (Meiji 41). In addition to graves and monuments, they’ve apparently worked on stone materials for Hiyoshi Shrine and even the sign? marker? for “Sakura-dori” in Kawanishicho. Their history and community contributions are impressive!
