Writing Topic 7

If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.


I'm from Yatsushiro, a small town in Kumamoto prefecture in Japan. Scince my hometown is far from the big city, it is suffer from dicreasing population and not juzzed up city. I can see serious damage from them in main shopping arcade. So if I could change one important thing about my hometown, I would change the declined shopping arcade now called shutter street.

When the main shopping arcade prosper, there would be many local people in the arcade and the city can get the local consumer back to its main street. Children like the place that is full of people, so when the arcade is prosper, the city can get yonger age consumer, and that will lead to give children and mostly eldery shop owner good chances to chat.

Shopping arcade is more convinient to eldery people consider its structure like not having escalator or stair that is usually dangerous for them. Scince the stores in shopping arcade are not big and not having a lot of children chacing each other around, so it is more safe to eldery people to shop in the store.

People feel more connected with the city whey they shop in shopping arcade that is related to the city than they do in a big department store chain. When you shop in the arcade, you can buy the product only purchasable in the city, so you will feel more related to the city by spending money to something from your hometown.

These are the reasons why I would change the declined shopping arcade for my hometown.