A few entrepreneurs in the antiques and curios business spotted all those empty stalls with their low rents, and with Yungkang Street's location offering easy access to the well-off middle class, they decided to move in. Over almost three years these businesspeople set up shop there, changing the name of the market back to a Japanese-era name, Chaoheting (or in Japanese, Showa-cho).
一群販售台灣懷舊物品的業者，看上此處攤位閒置、租金低廉，加上位於永康街，有錢有閒的中產階級眾多，於是近三年間陸續遷入市場內，並以此地的日治時代老地名「昭和町」重新命名。