noun
flophouse area; skid row
Colloquial term for a district with many cheap lodging houses (ドヤ), often associated with day laborers and poverty. Comparable to 'skid row' in English.
See also: どや
彼は若い頃、大阪のドヤ街で暮らしていた。
When he was young, he lived in the flophouse district of Osaka.
ドヤ街には簡易宿
In the flophouse area, cheap lodging houses line the streets.
ドヤ is the slang term for a cheap lodging house or flophouse, while ドヤ街 refers to the entire district where such places are concentrated.
Compound of ドヤ (slang for flophouse, from 宿 (やど) reversed) and 街 (がい, 'district').