It has been a week since the 10th of this month, when a large-scale fire broke out at Tanga Market, which has been popular as the "citizen's kitchen" in Kitakyushu City.
There is no prospect of resuming business at the burnt stores and their surroundings.
In the fire that occurred on the 10th of this month at the Tanga Market in Kokurakita Ward, Kitakyushu City, about 30 stores, about 2000 square meters, are believed to have burned, and power outages continue at 13 stores in the surrounding area.
It will be a week since the fire on the 17th, but there is still no prospect of resuming business in and around the burned stores, and people have been busy responding since the morning.
Of these, the fruit and vegetable store "Eriguchi", which has been without electricity since the fire, cannot open the store because the refrigerator cannot be used and the vegetables cannot be kept fresh.
On the 17th, I used a power supply borrowed from a nearby store to illuminate the store and clean the vegetable display shelves.
On the other hand, some stores have resumed operations in areas that have escaped damage from the fire, and many customers have been buying fish since the opening of the fresh fish store "Uoshu", which resumed operations on the 17th.
Shuji Kawakami, the owner of the shop, said, "I'm grateful to be able to do business, but it's hard because the other stores are burning."
The Tanga Market was developed about 100 years ago in the Taisho era and has been popular as the kitchen of the citizens of Kitakyushu City, but in April this year, a large-scale fire broke out in the immediate vicinity of the site. rice field.