Other Food Spots in Tokyo Area

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Kodawari Shoten

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Tokyo Shinjuku-ku Nishi-waseda 1-9-13

This grocery store stocks only things the owner, Mr. Yasui, has personally eaten and found delicious while visiting production areas across the country. The store's vegetables are primarily supplied by producers in Isesaki City, Gunma Prefecture; Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture; and Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture. Its chicken comes from Shimanto City, Kochi Prefecture and its pork from Yokote City, Akita Prefecture. Everything is something Mr. Yasui has a personal attachment to. The store takes particular pride in the freshness of its fish, which is shipped direct from a supermarket operated by a friend of Mr. Yasui located close to the fishing port in Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, ensuring it arrives one day earlier than fish passing through the Tsukiji market.
Ikemura Shoten

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Tokyo Niijimamura Shikinejima 348-1

"This conveniently accessible shop is located a short distance northwest of Shikinejima Elementary School and Junior High School just a little east of Shikinejima Island's center. While the shop sells daily necessities and shochu, its biggest draws are its homemade breads and bento box lunches. The shop's agepan deep-fried bread comes in three flavors - kinako toasted soybean flour, Ashitaba leaves, and cinnamon - and is particularly beloved by island residents. The shop also sells the Tataki Burger, a burger containing a deep-fried fish cake made with local island fish. Particularly recommended bento box lunches include the nori seaweed bento and the ""sanshoku"" (""three color"") bento. The shop also offers a daily-changing selection of Japanese deli-style foods."
Okutama Wasabi Honpo Yamashiroya

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Tokyo Nishitama-gun Okutamamachi Hikawa 717-3

This shop selling wasabi-zuke pickles is located straight down the road from the intersection at the entrance to Okutama Station across the Tama River. The longstanding establishment was opened in 1921 and its roots extend back into the late Edo period. The shop also grows its own wasabi and sells foods made from wasabi cultivated using the pure waters of the Tama River. The shop has been frequently featured in the media. Particularly recommended are the local Tama ginjo sake lees, the same sake lees used to make the shop's pickles; and the extra spicy Wasabi Doraku pickles.
Miyoshinoen

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Tokyo Ome-shi Baigo 6-1331-2

This umeboshi pickled Japanese plum shop is located in a quiet residential neighborhood a 15-minute walk from Hinatawada Station on the Ome Line. In addition to additive-free umeboshi made with domestically grown plums, the shop sells a variety of original Japanese plum foods and sweets such as Roll Chocolat plum-flavored chocolate rolls; and the Umetamazuke, a whole onion pickled in plum juice. The shop's vaunted umeboshi are made the old-fashioned way with hand-picked plums pickled in a 10% sun-dried salt solution and then naturally sun-dried two times. Customers appreciate that these tasty treats are made without any additives whatsoever and are safe and healthy to eat. Products such as the O! Ume freeze-dried umeboshi; and Bainiku Ekisu, an extract made by carefully simmering juices squeezed from unripe plums over an extended period of time, are perfect for recovering from fatigue and restoring depleted sodium levels in summer.
STAR KEBAB☆Akiba Terrace

4.0

7 Reviews

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Sotokanda 3-10-7

This kebab stand is situated along an alley filled with electronics parts shops a five-minute walk from Akihabara Station. This is the second location for STAR KEBAB, which began selling doner kebabs in Akihabara in 1999, and here you can buy kebab sandwiches, kebab rice bowls, Turkish ice cream, and more. Kebab shops largely sell takeout, but this stand is notably replete with a 12-seat eat-in space. In the eat-in space, you can enjoy things like the Beef Kebab Plate, which comes with beef doner kebab; and the Jingisukan-don, a rice bowl topped with tender lamb meat and a hearty helping of vegetables. The shop's standard kebab sandwiches and other items are, of course, available for takeout as well.

他の店舗でここならサバサンドが有ると聞いて行ってきました。ケバブも好きだけどそれからはいつもサバサンドです。オニオンとサバが絶妙なバランスで美味しい。
Gift Garden (Tokyo Station South Exit Shop)

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1 Tokyo Sta. Konai

A souvenir shop located within Tokyo Station, the center of transportation in Japan which features hotels, offices, and shopping. Located within the Marunouchi South Exit ticket gate on the first-floor south passage near the standard train lines you'll find this shop selling famous Tokyo sweets including Bunmeido's castella cake and Tokiwado's Kaminari-Okoshi sweet crispy rice crackers. Amongst the many souvenir shops located within the station you'll find that Gift Garden Tokyo Station South Exit Shop opens the earliest in the morning. They offer a wide variety of famous Tokyo sweets, both Japanese wagashi style and western-style, including Tokyo Hiyoko with its charming shape and simple flavor and Ginza Colombin which offers a traditional French flavor.
Akita Furusato-kan

3.5

31 Reviews

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Yurakucho 2-10-1 Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan 1F

"This local specialty product shop and showroom is located on the first floor of the Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan right in front of the Yurakucho Station's Central Exit a one-minute walk away. The shop carries an abundant selection of renowned confections, foods, alcoholic beverages, and folk crafts from Akita Prefecture. Filled to the brim with products on display, the store's jam-packed interior symbolizes Akita Prefecture's huge number of specialty products. Of course, the shop sells all of the foods which come to mind when one thinks of Akita, including kiritanpo toasted mashed rice skewers; Inaniwa udon noodles; iburi gakko daikon radish smoked over an irori hearth; and ""hatahata"" (Japanese sandfish), one of Akita's most well-known seafood exports. The shop's popular soft serve ice cream is made exclusively with milk from cows raised at the foot of Mt. Kurikoma and without any artificial flavorings or powdered milk"

比内地鶏のスープ、きりたんぽをここで買います。きりたんぽは、売り切れていなければ真空パックでないものを選んでいます。日持ちはしませんが、やはりおいしさが違います。あ、稲庭うどんもここで買います。 ※緊急事態宣言発出前の訪問です
Ikiiki Toyama-kan

4.0

45 Reviews

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Yurakucho 2-10-1 Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan B1

This local specialty products shop and showroom is notable for carrying all the standard products which comes to mind when one thinks of Toyama Prefecture. Situated on floor B1 of the Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan in front of Yurakucho Station, the shop sells some 800 products from Toyama, including seafood, meats, and other foods. The shop's merchandise featuring the logo of the Kerorin pharmaceutical brand, long-known for its bright yellow plastic buckets used for advertising in bathhouses, is popular with people of all generations, and you can find keychains, bath towels, baskets, and other goods colored the brand's distinctive yellow and bearing its logo. In addition, the shop holds a variety of events, such as seasonal prefectural food samplings and live sales demonstrations. You're sure to encounter something new from Toyama each time you come here, and many customers come back again and again for this very reason.

４月末に訪問しました。有楽町駅すぐの交通会館Ｂ１にあるアンテナショップです。向かいには和歌山県アンテナショップや、地上に出ると、北海道、鹿児島、沖縄県などアンテナショップが密集するエリアなので、アンテナショップ巡りにも最適です。この時期は店先で白エビなど各種押し寿司を作っていました。豊富な魚を生かしたカラフルで見たことのない蒲鉾も多数販売しており、ゲンゲやメギスなど冷凍の魚も多々あり、ワクワク感...
NIKI NO KASHI Big-kan

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Tokyo Taito-ku Ueno 4-6-1

Looking to offer a full range of affordable, quality Japanese sweets, this confectioner typically has about 5,000 kinds available. The fun shop with all its variety is popular with customers from Japan and abroad. Confections include penny-candies, traditional candies, rice crackers and imported candies. They also have a food area stocked with teas, seasonings, and meal pouches, as well as lots of items for the food service industry.
Shimura Candy Shop

2.5

2 Reviews

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Tokyo Taito-ku Ueno 6-11-3

The staff at this chocolate shop call out enthusiastically as they work. You can spot it by its yellow sign. They offer steep discounts on chocolate, which some consider the specialty of the Ameyoko Market in Ueno. The workers shouting as they stuff customers' bags with chocolate is considered the market's premier performance. The items they fill the bags with would probably cost over 2,000 yen if purchased separately. The store itself gets packed too, with lots of visitors joining in the shouting fun.

Youtubeや訪問者のブログで見てとても楽しそうだったので、行ってみました。猛暑のなかチョコレートを買うのはどうかとも思いましたが、とりあえず店の前へ。機嫌の悪そうな兄ちゃんが座っていた。目が合ったら「チョコレートいかがですか」と声をかけられた。どうしようか迷っていると、おばちゃんが「保冷材いれるから大丈夫」といったのでお願いしてみた。顔はブスくれたままで、チョコレート入れが始まった。例の「入れ...
Asakusa Kokonoe

4.5

49 Reviews

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Tokyo Taito-ku Asakusa 2-3-1

A fried manju bun shop three buildings down from Sensoji Temple. They conduct product demonstrations featuring their moderately sweet buns made with domestic azuki beans. They offer 11 types of fried manju buns, all crispy on the outside and soft in the middle. Flavors include sesame, matcha green tea, chestnut and chocolate they're available for individual purchase. Fried with a blend of premium oils, they sell three-bun variety gift packs too. The expiry date is about two weeks from purchase. Enjoy their light crispiness at home warmed up in a toaster oven or microwave with a baking setting.

I bought the custard filling age manju. It is deliciously chewy but has an interesting texture since it is fried.
Kimuraya Main Store

4.0

15 Reviews

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Tokyo Taito-ku Asakusa 2-3-1

This is the oldest of the several Asakusa shops selling small freshly baked snack cakes known as ningyo-yaki. It's on the Nakamise Shopping Street corner closest to Asakusa Kannon. They've been making their cakes with the same traditional lightly sweet flavor since they opened in 1872. The shop's founder came up with their four Asakusa-related cake varieties: five-storied pagoda, thunder god, lantern, and pigeon. The expiration date is about a week from purchase. Besides a snack to munch on while wandering Asakusa, they make tasty gifts and souvenirs. The shop also sells slightly sweet ankonashi treats.

「木村家本店」さんは浅草で最も古い人形焼きの店だそうです。浅草寺の参拝を終え仲見世通りを歩くと左側にありました。人形焼きと雷おこしを買いました。東京＆浅草の御土産定番はこの二つではないかと思います。雷おこしは別の商店さんの物でした。人形焼きや雷おこしを売る店は他にもあります。「最も古い」から浅草寺に近い位置なのか？？？
Asakusa Chochin Monaka

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Tokyo Taito-ku Asakusa 2-3-1 Nakamise-dori

A monaka specialty shop that's the only one of its kind in Japan. Monaka are wafer cakes filled with bean jam. Located on the Nakamise Shopping Street, their treats have a good old-fashioned flavor. Their super popular ice cream monakas are tweaked for modern times but still have the same flavor as old-school sweet shop monakas. You can choose from a number of ice cream fillings, including coconut, chocolate chip, vanilla, and purple yam. Made with 100% domestic glutinous mochi rice with a delightful crispy texture, they're carefully baked one-by-one. Only available in summer, their homemade plum juice is the perfect way to beat the heat.
Kosen

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Tokyo Chuo-ku Tsukiji 4-13-3

A shop specializing in processed fish products about a five-minute walk from Tsukiji Station on the Hibiya Line. Located in the Tsukiji Outer Market, karashi mentaiko (spicy pollock roe) directly imported from Kyushu forms the bulk of their business. They offer the finest karashi mentaiko has large eggs and an exquisite balance between spiciness and sweetness. In addition to other fish egg specialties such as tarako and ikura, they also handle Korean items such as chanja and kimchi. There are also many products not often found elsewhere, such as tasty kimchi seasoning mix and cold noodles from the veteran Ichiriki brand.
Maruyama Nori (Tsukiji Main Store)

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Tokyo Chuo-ku Tsukiji 4-7-5 Tsukiji Kyoei Ai Building 1F

A long-established nori seaweed shop that dates back to 1854. Their spectacular flavor has been honed over the years through working with traditional Japanese restaurants and top-notch sushi shops. 3,000 food service professionals in the Kanto area rely on the quality of their carefully selected products. Some of these sushi restaurants even have three-stars in the Micheline Guide Tokyo. Slow roasted at low temperatures, Hikobei nori is their flagship product. Having achieved the highest standards of flavor, fragrance, texture, and form, it has received the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award three times.
HOKKAIDO FOODIST (Yaesu Shop)

4.0

45 Reviews

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Tokyo Chuo-ku Yaesu 2-1 Yaesu Shopping Mall Naka 2 Block

"A showcase store located in the Yaesu Shopping Mall, one of the largest in Japan. They handle over 1,000 edible items from Hokkaido, including marine, agricultural, dairy, and prepared meat products. Their original Yukimaru no-bake cheesecake features a blend of Hokkaido cream cheese and several other cheeses. The popular item resembles a snowball and has a filling of pureed haskap Hokkaido blue-berried honeysuckle. They also sell a super sweet Hokkaido corn variety called ""Amaindesu"" in limited quantities."

2019年8月に神田-東京駅周辺を散策した際に立ち寄りました。東京駅八重洲中央口を出てすぐ、八重洲地下街に入っている北海道の食料品を取り扱うお店になります。北海道のアンテナショップといった感じですね。有楽町の交通会館に入っている「北海道どさんこプラザ」と同じくらいかやや多いアイテム数でしょうか。常時北海道の食料品を取り扱っているお店が東京駅のすぐそばにあるのは便利でいいですね。
Nihonichi Shoyu, Oka Naosaburo Shoten

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Tokyo Machida-shi Asahimachi 1-23-21

The headquarters of Oka Naosaburo Shoten, a soy sauce brewing company that dates to 1787. It's in the Minami-Tama area, a stopover along Japan's Silk Road ahead to Yokohama port that was once lively with trade. To this day they make their natural soy sauce in wooden casks. Made with premium ingredients, it's aged for over a year in their storage facility to give a mild flavor and aroma. The unusual storefront is made with casks actually used in the brewing process. You can purchase their Nihon-ichi Soy Sauce (registered trademark) from their sales area. It makes an ideal gift.
Tomizawa Shoten (Machida Main Store)

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Tokyo Machida-shi Haramachida 4-4-6

A specialty shop selling confection and bread making ingredients and equipment. Tomizawa Shoten is a long-standing food retailer founded in 1919 with more than 60 stores nationwide. On the old Machida Highway, its main store in Machida boasts an array of products and a settled atmosphere befitting its history. They offer more than 3,000 food items in an antique storehouse style shop with a nostalgia. Their huge diversity includes everything from chocolate and nuts to superfoods and items imported from around the world, so poking around never gets old. Customers include everyone from regular households to bread and pastry shops.
Joint Enterprise Cooperative Worker's Collective Bon

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Tokyo Machida-shi Kiso Nishi 2-1-17

A specialty store near the Sakai River flowing along the border between Tokyo and Kanagawa. They offer their own additive-free jams. Varieties include blueberry, strawberry, and carrot. Using only fruit or vegetables and sugar, they're slowly cooked down to preserve the tastiness of the ingredients without relying on pectin, gelling agents, thickeners, etc. Their blueberry sauce has a deep-fruit flavor; made with only Machida-grown blueberries, this gem was certified a Machida Local Specialty in 2016.
Doitsuya

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Tokyo Machida-shi Narusedai 2-2-8

This handmade ham and sausage shop was founded on the idea of providing customers with genuine, additive free products. The stylish shop looks like it could be in Germany, the country that inspires their local, handmade food items. Their flagship Salt-Free Weiners are also free of artificial colors and seven potential allergens, including eggs and dairy. They are so safe that they are served to local children in their school lunches. Based on the lessons of German masters, they have used only high-quality, fresh, domestic pork since their founding.

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