Such businesses initially started in tourist spots with elegant townscapes such as Kyoto and Kamakura, or in downtown areas like Asakusa in Tokyo where jinrikisha blend in well with the scenery, and gradually spread to hot-spring resorts such as Ito Onsen in the Izu area and Dogo Onsen, and the port of Moji, which appears in the movie 'Muhomatsu no issho' (Wild Matsu the Rickshaw Man), and to famous Chinatowns.
当初、京都、鎌倉といった風雅な街並みが残る観光地、又は浅草などの人力車の似合う下町での営業が始まり、次第に伊豆伊東、道後温泉といった温泉町や「無法松の一生」にちなむ門司港、有名観光地である中華街などに広がっていった。