Nihonbashi Bakurochō

Nihonbashi Bakurochō (日本橋馬喰町), known in short as Bakurochō (馬喰町), is a neighborhood in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.

It is at the intersection of the Kanda River and the Sumida River. Its name means "horse trader town", a reference to how it was formerly a center for selling and buying horses.

It is known as a center for the textile trade. Additionally, Matjaz Ursic and Heide Imai, in Creativity in Tokyo: Revitalizing a Mature City, stated that the concentration of hotels, stemming from lodging needed for horse trading, gave the Bakurochō area fame.

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