ドヤ街がい

noun

flophouse area; skid row

Colloquial term for a district with many cheap lodging houses (ドヤ), often associated with day laborers and poverty. Comparable to 'skid row' in English.

See also: どや

• 彼かれは若わかい頃ころ、大おお阪さかのドヤ街がいで暮くらしていた。

  When he was young, he lived in the flophouse district of Osaka.

• ドヤ街がいには簡かん易い宿しゅく泊はく所じょが並ならんでいる。

  In the flophouse area, cheap lodging houses line the streets.