In recent years in Taiwan, with the rapid economic development and the rising of national as well as metropolitan economy, the importance of regular shops and their complex shopping streets to the national life has been an issue which draws a lot of people's attention. Thus, it is necessary to do research on shopping streets in the rising center of Taipei City, which symbolizes the face of metropolises. Such research has a purpose to clarify the significance of the commercial function of the metropolises. Accordingly, the researcher, with a circle of at least ten years and based on the close relationship not only between geographical but also between historical backgrounds, chose the metropolises in the wide areas of Taiwan and Japan to conduct a comparative analysis on the change of the shopping streets in these areas. This is one of the serial studies of its kind. The subjects are the shopping streets in the rising center of Taipei City. A study on the analysis of the variances of the most important commercial activity: space, was conducted. The space here includes the size and pattern of the central shopping center, the structures of the shops, the shop displays.