与日本其他地区的购物街一样 ， 这条购物街也正面临着成为“关门街”的危险 ， 因为这条街道上大多数的商店都处于关门歇业的状态 。 街道即使在白天也很少有行人经过 ， 到处都是空地 。 为了阻止购物街的衰落 ， 出生于前桥市的企业家Jin Tanaka参与了“前桥机构（Maebashi Machinaka）”的建立 ， 这是一个促进前桥市互联网络化的组织 ， 同时也涵盖一些其他的项目 ， 其中也包括我们所做的Nakamata糖果店得项目 。 然而 ， “关门街”的问题非常严重 ， “关门”商店的数量似乎在项目启动的两年后仍在增加 。

This shopping street like other shopping streets in regional cities throughout Japan was facing the danger of becoming a \"shutter street\" where most storefronts are closed for business. There are few passers-by even during the day and vacant lots are spotted here and there. Driven by a strong desire to stop the decline of the shopping street entrepreneur Jin Tanaka who was born in Maebashi facilitated the establishment of \"Maebashi Machinaka Agency\" an organization promoting networking of people and things in Maebashi and several projects including the Nakamata project we worked on were launched at the same time. However the \"shutter-street\" issue is very serious and \"shuttered\" stores seem to be still increasing two years after the project started.