Hanamizaka was the lower district of Inazuma City, as well as its commoners' quarter.
The cities of Teyvat all shared one very obvious characteristic: the higher people's status, the higher up in the city they chose to live.
This held true for the Jade Chamber and Yujing Terrace in Liyue, the Cathedral of Favonius and the Knights of Favonius headquarters in Mondstadt, Tenshukaku and the Regent's Office in Inazuma, and the Akademiya and the Sanctuary of Surasthana in Sumeru.
Precisely because of this mindset, as the city developed over time, Inazuma City gradually developed an unwritten convention: a city was divided into so-called upper and lower districts, with commoners gathering among commoners and nobles among nobles.
Someone wealthy and powerful would not choose to live in a lower district full of commoners, while commoners most likely could not afford the high prices in the upper district.
This was by no means some form of regional discrimination. Everyone keeping to their own circles could instead create a scene of harmony.
If the journey there had showcased Inazuma's agricultural character, then entering Hanamizaka revealed its cultural character and commercial atmosphere.
With the lifting of the Sakoku Decree, commerce, handicrafts, services, and other tertiary industries in Inazuma City had sprung up in great numbers like mushrooms after rain, satisfying the Inazuman people's growing material and cultural needs.
They could not let foreign merchants make all that money.
As the darling of both Inazuma and Mondstadt, Klee skipped excitedly down Hanamizaka's streets, brimming with curiosity about everything in Inazuma City. Just then, something caught her attention, as though an invisible thread had drawn her toward it.
Klee stopped outside a shop called Naganohara Fireworks and peered around. Although she recognized only the characters for "long" and "flower" among the six characters on its sign,