Here’s the “Nishinomiya Quiz” segment, where knowing the answer proves you’re a true Nishinomiya expert.
This article is brought to you by “ALBOBBY,” a salon that supports Nishi2.
Here’s today’s quiz↓
Which shop inside Gardens has the longest name written only in Japanese characters?
(*Excluding names like “〜 Hankyu Nishinomiya Gardens Shop” or ones mixed with English, like “roast beef”)
We’ve filled in just the first two characters.
a.山田
b.靴下
c.名代
d.成城
e.浪花
Nishi2 correct answer rate: 50%
If you haven’t seen the answer yet, give it a try♪
*We made a painful mistake where “山田” was in the question but not in the choices below<m(__)m> So we quietly added it to both the question and the answer section.
- 浪花19.2%(32票)
- 靴下11.4%(19票)
- 名代31.1%(52票)
- 成城35.3%(59票)
- 山田3%(5票)
By the way, if we rank the non-Japanese-only names, it looks like this:
6th グラニースミスアップルパイアンドコーヒー(20 characters)
6th トゥーストゥースパティスリーアンドカフェ(20 characters)
6th ビーミング ライフストア by ビームス(20 characters)
6th トリート アイラッシュアンドネイルサロン(20 characters)
6th 阪急西宮ガーデンズ皮フ科スキンクリニック(20 characters)
4th レディース＆ARTクリニック サンタクルス(21 characters)
4th ビューティアンドユースユナイテッドアローズ(21 characters)
2nd イエナスローブフォーワンセブンバイエディフィス(23 characters)
2nd アースミュージック＆エコロジープレミアムストア(23 characters)
1st ユナイテッドアローズグリーンレーベルリラクシング(24 characters)
Most of them are English-style shop names, but the 6th-place Hankyu Nishinomiya Gardens Dermatology Skin Clinic does pretty well as a shop name that uses some Japanese.
So, among the shops that use only Japanese, the one with the highest character count is…
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The correct answer is c, “名代とんかつ かつくら 京都三条.” 14 characters!!!
Katsukura is a tonkatsu restaurant located on the 4th floor of Gardens, on the corner in front of Hankyu Department Store.
Most people probably just call it “Katsukura,” so it may have felt like a trick question, or made you wonder, “What’s 名代?”
By the way, I couldn’t immediately figure out how to read 名代, so I Googled it. It’s “nadai.” It means famous or well-known.
Here are the character counts for the shops in the quiz↓
山田養蜂場(5 characters)
靴下屋(3 characters)
名代とんかつ かつくら 京都三条(14 characters)
成城石井(4 characters)
浪花浪花串家物語(8 characters)
To make this question, we created a list of shops in Gardens.
There are actually 301 shops(as of 2020/12/29). It might be a fun way to kill time by seeing how many of them you know.
