This covered shopping arcade close to Nara Park has a good selection of restaurants and souvenir shops, and is a good option on rainy days. Adjoining Kintetsu Nara Station, it tends to get crowded in the early evening. Wheelchair accessibility for each shops are different but there are shops and restaurants you can enter in a wheelchair.

• Facility Overview and Access

• Wheelchair accessibility and facilities

• Parking

• Restroom

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• Facility Overview

  Facility Name: ​Higashimuki shopping street

  Address: Higashimuki Nakamachi, Nara-city

  Telephone Number: +81-742-24-4986

  Opening Hours: depends on the store

  Closed: Shopping street is always open, but stores may not be open

  General Admission Fee: None

  Discount for those with Disabilities: None

  Home Page URL: https://higashimuki.jp/shop_en.php

  Access

  Nearest train station: Kintetsu Nara Station

  Distance from Nearest train station: Right next to the station

  Approximate travel time from bus stop: 1 minutes
• Accessability

  Suitable in All Weather: Good for rainy days, Shopping street is mostly covered

  Estimated Visiting time for Persons with Disabilities: 30 min to 1 hour

  Parking for those with Disabilities: No

  Multilingual Guidance Available: No

  Map of Wheelchair accesible paths Available: No

  Basic Information for Accessability

  Step into Entrance of Facility（Height）: some shops have steps

  Wheelchair accessable Entryway option(Slope）: depends on shops

  Elevator: None

  Nursing Room Available: None

  First Aid Room: None

  Babysitting/Childcare: None

  Sensory Room: None

  Prayer Room:​ ​None

  Service Dogs Allowed:　OK, ( inside of shops is depending of the stores.)

  Rentals

  Wheelchair Rental: 1 wheelchair available at the tourist information center in front of Kintetsu Nara Station.

  Baby Buggy/Stroller Rental: No

  Audio Guide Rental: No

  Other Available Rentals: No
• Parking Area

  No parking available.Please use coin parking nearby.
• Toilet

  Restroom Entryway Width: 77cm

  Toilet Stall Entryway Width: 60cm

  Western Style Toilets Available: Yes

  Western style Toilets with Handrails Available: No

  Availability of heated bidet: Yes

  Toilet Information for those with Physical Disabilities

  Toilet stall for those with Physical Disabilites:  Available at Nara Prefectural Women's Center in the arcade.

  Door Style: Sliding Door

  Inside size: 188cm x 200cm

  Handrail Available: L bar style & adjustable U bar style

  Warm Water Bidet Available: Yes

  Ostomate-compatile facilities: Yes

  Universal Changing bed（for adults）: None

  Emmergency Alert Button in Stall: None

  For Young Children

  Baby Chair in Restroom stalls: ​Yes

  Diaper Changing Bed: Yes

  For the Visually Impaired

  Audio Guide Available: No​

  Braille Guide, Braille Map Available: No

  Toilet for Seeing Eye Dog Available: No

Wheelchair Accessibility at facility 

Restrooms

• Arcade and shops' accessibility information

• Information & Guidance System

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• Arcade

  Layout plan of buliding available/Map: Yes

  Wheelchair accesible: Yes

  Width of street: over 120cm

  Shops and restaurants

  Uneven surfaces on Paths: There are several stores with no steps (cafes, Japanese sweets shops, Narazuke shops, izakayas, etc.)

  Stairs at Facility: Some stores have stairs.

  Accessibility Path around Steps: Varies depending on store

  Pathway Surfaces: Gravel, cobblestone pavement

  Inaccesible Areas to those with physical disabilities: Depends on the store

  Rest Area: None

  Braille Ground Blocks : None

  Braile Exhibit Guide Information: None

  Other information: Wheel chair is accessible to the 1st floor of some shops Toilet is only available at Nara pref. women's center(Nara ken Josei center)

  Condition of Stairways at Facility

  Wheelchair Stairlift Available: No

  Handrail Available: No

  Braille Labelled Handrails: No
• Accomodations for Different Needs at Facility

  Support & Guidance Available: Available at a tourist information center in Kintetsu Nara station which locates at the entrance of the shopping street​

  Facilities & Exhibits that are accessible to those with Physical Disabilities: No

  Areas not accessible to those with Physical Disabilities:Depends on the store

  Audio Guide Available: None

  Displays/Exhibits made for the Visually impaired & Blind: None

  Displays/Exhibits made for the Hearing impaired & Deaf: None

  Speech to Text Conversion Available: None

  Multilingual Displays: Depends on the store

  Multilingual Audio Guide, Headset Audio Guide Available: None

  Accommodations provided by Staff

  Staff trained to accommodate those with Physical Dissabilities: No​

  Staff trained to accommodate the Visually Impaired & Blind: No

  Staff trained to accomodate the Hearing Impairments & Deaf: No

  Staff can use Sign Language: No

  Multilingual Staff Available: No
• Escalators

  Escalator: None

  Audio Guidance to Escalator Available: N/A

  Elevators

  Number of Elevators Available: None

  Width Inside Elevator:

  Door Width:

  Wheelchair Accesible Control Panel:

  Rear-view Mirror in Elevator:

  Audio guidance at Destination Floors:

  Braille on Control Panel:

  Visual Display of Destination Floor: ​

  Multilingual Guidance:

  Multilingual Control Pannel: