街がい

noun, used as a suffix

street; quarter; district; area

Suffix attached to place names or descriptors to indicate a street, neighborhood, or commercial district. Common in city planning and addresses.

• この通とおりは商しょう店てん街がいです。

  This street is a shopping district.

• 彼かれは中ちゅう華か街がいで昼ちゅう食しょくを食たべた。

  He had lunch in Chinatown.