Wooden plaques stand along the shopping street, naming what each shop used to sell. Shukubamachi-dōri in Kita-Senju follows the line of the Senju post town on the Nikkō Kaidō, and the width of the road and the way it bends are still the road's own. Partway along is the site of the yatchaba, the vegetable market, marked in front of the buildings that once housed it, which is a record kept at street level rather than in a display case somewhere else.

The street is divided into zones with different characters; the post-town stretch and the covered Sun Road do not look alike, and walking them in sequence feels like passing through two shopping streets rather than one. Five railway lines meet at the station. Universities have opened here in recent years and rents are moderate by Tokyo standards, so students and long-established shopkeepers use the same street at different hours of the same day. Events fill it completely, but an ordinary weekday evening is busy as well, because for a great many people the way home from work runs straight through the middle of it.

Post towns usually go quiet. A national highway is built somewhere else, the through-traffic leaves, and what remains is a well-kept street with nothing passing along it. Kita-Senju was spared that because the station was put here, so the place never stopped being a route for other people's journeys. The reason travellers came through in the era of the highway and the reason it is crowded on a Tuesday evening are probably the same reason, continued by other means.