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Officially known as the {{Nihongo|'''Mutsu-kabe Promenade'''|六壁遊歩道|Mutsukabe Yūhodō}} and also nicknamed {{Nihongo|'''Deadman's Curve'''|デッドマンズ・カーブ|Deddomanzu Kābu}}, Shakedown Road is a curved hundred-fifty meter car-free street that connects to Hasekura High School in [[Morioh (Part 8)|Morioh]], S-City, {{W|Japan}}.<ref>{{Ch|JJL Chapter 18}}</ref> Along the street's path are ''{{w|Ginkgo biloba}}'' trees, whose leaves litter the ground and are the means by which the [[Stand]] [[Les Feuilles]] causes the neighborhood's unique phenomenon that objects that touch the leaves are moved at imperceptibly fast speeds along them, consciously directed by those aware of its nature. Legends say that the area gained its strange ability back in 1901 when [[Johnny Joestar]] brought the [[Saint's Corpse]] to Morioh in an attempt to cure his wife [[Rina Higashikata]] of a [[Rock Disease|strange illness that turned her body to stone]]. While Johnny was ultimately successful, his attempts led to his infant son [[George Joestar III|George]] being struck by the same illness,; beforehe heultimately used the Corpse and [[Tusk|his own mysterious power]] to transfer the illness to himself, before he dieddying under mysterious circumstances as a large boulder suddenly appeared and crushed his head. In his memory, locals erected a {{MI|Joestar Jizō|jizō statue}} that is carefully maintained to the present day, even decorated with a [[Minor Locations/Part 8#SBR Hat Shop|SBR]] brand hat not unlike the one worn by [[Josuke Higashikata (JoJolion)|Josuke Higashikata]] in the modern day.<ref>{{Ch|JJL Chapter 21}}</ref>

As its name suggests, people passing through Shakedown Road are financially extorted by its residents who have all managed to discover the phenomenon caused by Les Feuilles, however none of the residents possess a Stand themselves and are thus unaware of the actual nature of the phenomenon.<ref name="Ch19">{{Ch|JJL Chapter 19}}</ref> It is only during the events of the [["Shakedown Road" (storyStory arcArc)|Shakedown Road]] story arc that Josuke manages to spot Les Feuilles underneath the leaves after he and [[Joshu Higashikata]] are assailed by many of Shakedown Road's residents and they both independently identify that the strange phenomenon exists for themselves, even before Joshu develops his own Stand [[Nut King Call]] during the events of the arc. Residents otherwise keep the truth of Shakedown Road a secret, with the open knowledge that anyone unaware is free game to be extorted by those who do know, with even local police aware of the nature of the secret in some form.<ref name="Ch19" /><ref>{{Ch|JJL Chapter 20}}</ref>

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*[[Hirohiko Araki]] had the experience of one such road during his youth, although the thugs let him be because of mutual acquaintances at Araki's kendo club.<ref>{{INT|Tohoku University (October 2013)}}</ref>