Shimamachi Town

Shimachi Town is a town where The King sends The Prince to roll katamaris. Shimachi Town is featured in Touch My Katamari. The town is a large technological place with many shops that sell CDs, electronics, and other tech. Shimachi Town is a rather large area with it's own festival plaza, Chinatown, zoo, amusement park and lake. Most of the time, the player starts out in Lakeside Park.
The King sends The Prince here to roll as much as possible to reach a certain size or to roll to meet a requirement so the people can be convinced of The King's greatness and admire his excellency.
==Layout==
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Starting from the park area, the player is able to roll down the hill that the park is situated from and from here the player can go left or right, to the left is a sandy pit area and to the right is the main street of the first portion of the town. On the main street, there are usually cars driving, or parked and some roadwork going on as well. There are some smaller streets that branch out from the main street to give access to more shops in the town. A large majority of the shops in this portion are cafes, game shops, computer stores, and comic shops. There is noticeably a large tech shop called "tsubame denki" which sells laptops and TVs. On the other side of the street is a stage area with idols dancing on stage, and behind that is an area that is normally blocked off with heavy traffic.
There is a river called the Mozugawa river that divides the first portion from the second portion of the town, the second portion of the town is a Japanese district on the left side on entering the second portion, there are more local stores. The player is greeted with a giant shrine gate with a line of Japanese shops that lead to a big plaza. In this big plaza, there is usually some giant Ape Kings, and Yokozuna Sumo wrestlers wandering the area, to the right side of the shrine gate before entering, there is a construction site. In the middle of the plaza there is a shrine temple and a pagoda with their own parking lot.
Leading away from the plaza is a train station along with more business buildings and shops, there is a giant crosswalk in the middle of this business area. Next to the business area is a zoo called the Nakano Animal Park, it's layout looks rather similar to the The Mother Nature Memorial Zoo, with it's own SeaWorld area, safari zone and huge tall mountain ledges. Across the zoo, there is a ramp that leads to an amusement park that has it's own Ferris wheel, swing ride, and boat ride, the amusement park seems to be the center of the entire town and oversees a lot of it.
To the left of the zoo is a Chinatown district, there are gates on either side of the street in this section and there buildings mostly consist of cafes. At the end of the Chinatown, there is a ramp that leads to a running track with it's own shrine temple that overlooks it. In this last area there is noticeably two giant buildings, and behind this area is the lake with it's own path to get to.
==Levels==
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*Make It Big 5: Children
*Make It Big 6: Workers
*Shopping
*The Great Journey
==Trivia==
*The directory inside of tsubame denki states that there are six floors to the building, but the player is only granted access to the ground level.
*There exists a Hamburger Land in the second business area.
*The Nakano Animal Park greatly resembles The Mother Nature Memorial Zoo.
*The town has it's own environment bureau as translated on the Mozugawa river sign.
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Category:Touch My Katamari: Stages