Abstract
Shopping streets at local city in Japan became old and are
generally declining. In this paper, we handle the area rebirth and/or regional
revitalization of shopping street. We focus on Fuji city in Japan. Four big
festivals are held at Fuji city (two for Fuji Shopping Street Town and two for
Yoshiwara Shopping Street Town). Many people visit these festivals including
residents in that area. Therefore a questionnaire investigation to the
residents and visitors is conducted during these periods in order to clarify
residents and visitors’ needs for the shopping street, and utilize them to the
plan building of the area rebirth and/or regional revitalization of shopping
street. There is a big difference between Fuji Shopping Street Town and
Yoshiwara Shopping Street Town. Therefore we focus Yoshiwara Shopping Street in
this paper. These are analyzed by using Cluster Analysis and Multiple
Regression Analysis. These are utilized for constructing a much more effective
and useful plan building. We have obtained fruitful results. To confirm the
findings by utilizing the new consecutive visiting records would be the future
works to be investigated.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 62H30
Keywords: Fuji City, Area rebirth, Regional vitalization,
festival, Cluster Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis