自転車で古今烏丸へFormerly the Kyoto office of Marubeni Corporation, the original building that today is home to Cocon Karasuma was completed in 1938.
Following the end of the Second World War, it became the Kyoto headquarters of the occupying American forces.
As part of the larger redevelopment of the Karasuma corridor - a wide boulevard that was until the 1990s home to banks and insurance companies, and quite dead after 5 pm - the site was redesigned and reopened in 2004.
Today it is a downtown, multi-story shopping mall with galleries and restaurants and a quirky collection of shops.
One of the city's best movie theaters, Kyoto Cinema, is on the third floor.
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