Shinobazu Pond

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The Shinobazu Pond (Shinobazu no Ike?) is a pond within Ueno Park (a spacious public park located in the Ueno section of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan), and a historically prominent Shitamachi feature often appearing in history and works of art. The park occupies the site of the former Kan'ei-ji, a temple closely associated with the Tokugawa shoguns, who had built it to guard Edo Castle against the northeast, a direction believed to be unlucky by traditional geomancy. The temple was destroyed during the Boshin War. The pond, although modified many times and even once drained, is natural.

Around the pond, there is a stand of several cases, I can drink sake even in the daytime.

When you go around the pond, It will be a variety of sight enters the eye.

It may seem strange, the differences of culture and your country.

I have lived in Tokyo for many years, but a strange place is often in Ueno.

Shinjuku - Kabukicho around

Kabukichō is an entertainment and red-light district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Kabukichō is the location of many host and hostess clubs, love hotels, shops, restaurants, and nightclubs, and is often called the "Sleepless Town". The district's name comes from late-1940s plans to build a kabuki theater: although the theater was never built, the name stuck.
The area has many movie theaters, and is located near Shinjuku Station, Seibu Shinjuku Station, and several other major railway and subway stations.

At present, Kabukichō has transformed from a residential area to a world famous red-light district housing over three thousand bars, nightclubs, love hotels, massage parlours, hostess clubs and the like. Although referred here as a "red light district", there are no red lights in the literal sense with prostitutes in the windows as in Amsterdam. Recently, tourism from China and Korea are on the rise, and so, many tourists can be seen in Kabukichō even during daytime.

The Shinjuku Koma Theater has been a landmark in Kabukichō. Now in its third building, it has hosted concerts and other performances by top stars, including enka singers Saburō Kitajima, Kiyoshi Hikawa, and actor Ken Matsudaira. The management announced that they would close after the December 31, 2008 show.

AYAYOKO

Ameya-Yokochō

Currently, fish shop-lined main street lot. Prices are fake?

They sell fish, says in the deep, gravelly voice."This price is good in 1000 yen!"

In Japanese, it means that (AME) candy.

Candy dealers, happy as long as lined, it is different now.

An old story, it's the origin of the name of the street.

After the war, various articles have been sold is a black market, it is called "Ameya Yokocho" from the fact that there were 200 hotels, restaurants and at that time shop work off the candy in particular, called "Ameyoko" it is abbreviated became more . Even now, the Ameyoko Shopping Street, a shop selling sweets such as candy are also present.

Ameya-Yokochō is an open-air market in the Taito Ward of Tokyo, Japan, located next to Ueno Station.
The market is approximately 164,227 square feet in area, starting just behind the Yodobashi Camera building and following the Yamanote Line south until the Komuro building.
The name ameyayokocho means "candy shop alley". However in present day it is referred to simply as ameyoko . The market is home to over one hundred and eighty one shops, which sell products ranging from fresh food and fish to clothing and time pieces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameya-Yokoch%C5%8D

Japanese Fried noodles

YAKISOBA　HANAYA

Do you know the Yakisoba?

it was seasoned with source of Japan.　Rustic taste.

Small 350YEN Large 450YEN Double 700YEN

It's hit the cooking, veteran craftsman.

Sōsu Yakisoba or Yakisoba, literally fried noodles (in sauce for the former), is considered a Japanese dish but originated in China and is technically a derivative of Chinese chow mein. It first appeared in food stalls in Japan at some point during the early 20th century. Although soba means buckwheat, typically suggesting noodles made from that flour in mainland Japan, yakisoba noodles are made from wheat flour similar to ramen. It is typically flavoured with a sweetened, thickened condiment similar to Oyster sauce.

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Kappabashi Dougu Street

The shopping mall, is in for a professional cook & Restaurant management.

The store, along more than 100, the product of your favorite will find it.

Outside of Japan, please locate the treasure that can not buy.

There is also a retail.　You can buy it from one.

Maybe, cash payment.....

 fake food shop maid in Japan

Modern times saw increased use of fake food. During the early Shōwa period, following Japan’s surrender ending World War II, Americans and Europeans traveled to Japan to help with the rebuilding efforts. Foreign travelers had difficulties reading Japanese menus, so Japanese artisans and candle makers quickly developed plates of wax foods for restaurants that made it easy for foreigners to order something that looked good. Paraffin was used to create fake food until the mid-1980s; because its colors faded when exposed to heat or sunlight, manufacturers later switched to vinyl chloride, which is nearly eternal.

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 Japanese style cookware old old days
KAMAASA
http://www.kama-asa.co.jp/en/

Kappabashi Dougu Street　Official web site

Kappabashi Dougu Street

Shop Hours

Each shop hours are 09:00 to 17:00 (except for some shops).On Monday to Friday almost every shop are open.On Saturday about 90% shops are open.On Sunday and public holidays about 30% shops are open.Holidays vary by shop.For more information, please visit the website of each shop.
Overview
Kappabashi Dougu Street is located in Tokyo's Taito City, along the west side of Asakusa's main entertainment district, and just midway between Ueno and Asakusa.
Merchants first began gathering in the Kappabashi area around 1912, selling old tools and a wide range of implements and hardware. Today, one can find almost every kind of restaurant equipment imaginable, including bakery equipment, Japanese, Western, and Chinese tableware, china, laquerware, restaurant equipment, packaging, containers, decorative goods, "fake" food samples, chefs' coats, signs, noren (shop curtains), bamboo wares, baking ingredients, food and beverage ingredients, confectionary wholesalers, Japanese furniture, Western furniture, kitchen equipment, refrigerators and refrigerated showcases, showcases, displays, shop design and construction services, and much more. At 800 meters (nearly a half-mile) in length, and with over 170 shops, this is Japan’s largest shopping street devoted to kitchen implements.

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ASAKUSA

For most of the twentieth century, Asakusa was the major entertainment district in Tokyo.

Large lantern of Raimon

Nakamise

Sensō-ji

Early in the morning of March 18, 628, when the capital of Japan was Asuka (present-day Nara Prefecture), two fishermen, Hinokuma Hamanari and his brother Takenari, were fishing in the Sumida River. Suddenly sensing something, they pulled up their net to find a statue of Bodhisattva Kannon. When Haji no Nakatomo, village headman of Asakusa, heard about this, he immediately realized that the object was a statue of the important Buddhist deity Bodhisattva Kannon. Taking vows as a Buddhist priest and remaking his home into a temple, he spent the rest of his life in devotion to Bodhisattva Kannon.
In 645, renowned Buddhist priest Shokai Shonin built Kannondo Hall upon visiting the Asakusa district during his travels. Following a revelation he received in a dream, Shokai decided that the image should be hidden from human view, and this tradition has remained in place ever since.
Asakusa began as an obscure fishing village along an estuary of Tokyo Bay, part of the vast wilderness of the area known as Musashi. The district later thrived as people arrived in increasing numbers to worship. When Ennin (794-864), the highest-ranking priest of Enryaku-ji (head temple of the Tendai School of Buddhism) visited Senso-ji in the mid-ninth century, he created a statue identical to the hidden one that could be viewed and worshipped by the people.
During the Kamakura period (1192-1333), the shoguns, who held the true power in Japan during this time, demonstrated great devotion to Senso-ji. Gradually, other historically prominent figures including military commanders and the literati came to follow their example. Enjoying the protection of these illustrious individuals, the temple buildings were refined. During the Edo period (1603-1867), first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu deemed Senso-ji the temple where prayers for the aspirations of the shogunate would be offered. As a result the buildings were imbued with still greater dignity, and the temple complex flourished as the center of Edo (present-day Tokyo) culture.
Senso-ji is Tokyo's oldest temple. Known affectionately to people all over Japan as the temple of the Asakusa Kannon, it draws some 30 million visitors every year, remaining an important center of worship.

Unagi

Kabayaki eel is prepared differently in the Kanto and Kansai regions. In Kanto style, the eel is sliced down the back, first broiled plain, then steamed, and then seasoned and grilled once again. Legend says that because Edo had a large population of the samurai warrior class, it was bad luck to slit the eel down the belly.

Asakusa Tourism Association web site

Tsukiji Fish Market

It is Japan's largest fish market. Fresh fish of good quality all over Japan are gathered.

Tsukiji market can Entry to the general public.

There is a sushi shop.

Place to eat of workers is full of tourists.

Sushi has grown into a popular cuisine the world over. From nigiri-zushi, or bite-sized balls of vinegar-flavored rice topped with pieces of fresh seasonal seafood, to chirashi-zushi, or a plate of this rice covered with a variety of ingredients, the eye-pleasing sushi is a tradition of Japan with universal appeal.

Outside the market, there are many stores that sell seafood.

Payment is cash only!

The Tsukiji Market is separated into two main areas: the Inner Market (Jonai Shijo) and the Outer Market (Jogai Shijo).　 The Inner Market is the wholesale market for the professionals, and that is where the fish auction takes place. The Outer Market, featured in this brochure, retails some of the fresh seafood and vegetables sold in the Inner Market. Primarily, both markets cater to the professionals, but the Outer Market has recently opened its doors to visitors.

Official web site of this place