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Cooking lovers must go there
Story by Megumi, Nagomi Kitchen
If you like cooking like me, I think you MUST visit Kappa-bashi（合羽橋）during your stay in Tokyo.
Kappa-bashi is the street and there are so many shops which provides cooking and kitchen tools such as plates, paper thing, pot, knives, cookie templates, chopstics and so on, I love this place verymuch!
There is not only for the consumars but also professionals like chef or manager of restaurant it means sometimes you can find and get staffs cheaper than the other place. When I go to Kappa-bashi,usually I need more than three hours to take a look for all the shops I’m interested in because there are tons of nice goods for cooking lovers. 🙂
I have thought that I want to introduce this place to all the guest of Nagomi Kitchen, but I have always forgot to take pictures because I always concentlate to my own shopping 😀
But few weeks ago, my boyfriend’s mother and aunt visited us from Denmark and we took them to Kappa-bashi so finally now I can introduce you my favorite place with many pics!
Many kind of design of tiny plates, it called “Mamezara” in Japanese. The price is just around 100-300 yen.
Tea pot, price is about 1,000 yen. You can find many kind of green tea easily at the supermarket and just put them into this pot with hot water.
Cups, price from 500 yen to 1,000 yen.
Nambu Ironware, it’s the Japanese traditional craft. Looks nice! 
If you visit Takayama during your trip in Japan, maybe you can find this one at there when you served original dish at Takayama, “Hooba-Miso”.
Steam cooker.
Kappa-bashi is also famous for the food sample.
I will show you something I got at Kappa-bashi 😀
Kappa-bashi is nearby Asakusa (about 10 minutes on foot) so you can schedule to visit this wonderful place at the same day as Asakusa.
Good luck for your shopping!
Megumi Kusunoki, (@nagomistation) currently a cooking instructor in Tokyo started Nagomi Kitchen in hopes for people around the world to learn more about real Japanese food. Combining her passion for tourism as a former scuba diving instructor, bus tour guide, and marketing and sales manager for an online guide for tourists coming to Japan, and food, Nagomi Kitchen was born out of a labor of love. She hopes that through Nagomi Kitchen more people will become more familiar with Japanese food and ingredients and be able to incorporate Japanese home cooking into their daily meal.
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Loading...Autumn Leaves Viewing around Tokyo!
Tiger statue under autumn leaves
Visited a temple-shrine, Tamon-in
Maples over Lion guardian stature
demon shaped (?) Jizo bodhisattva
in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture which is famous for its autumn leaves viewing.
Autumn leaves viewing around Tokyo area is also in full bloom!
Funny? 19 century tiger stature ‘Komatora’, whose smaller version can be devoted as a sacrificial object, was there to guard against evils.
(1 投票, 平均値/最大値: 2.00 / 5)Loading...6. Youth fashion stores come by the hundreds-Shibuya, Harajuku,Omotesando, Aoyama
Tokyo Fashion Street
Even with the arrival of Forever 21 and H&M, there are countless independent fashion boutiques in the Harajuku area — all dedicated to generally insane forms of youth fashion.
Tokyo Fashion Street
If you count adjacent Shibuya, Omotesando and Aoyama into the region, you have the world’s largest fashion district: featuring basically every single major designer brand in the world.
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(まだ評価されていません)Loading...2. The most beautiful place you’ll never visit-Tokyo Imperial Palace
Tokyo Imperial Palace
The Imperial Residence sits on three and a half square kilometers of greenery that were once valued at more than all of the real estate in California.
(まだ評価されていません)Loading...1. The world’s most sophisticated railways
Tokyo Railway Lines
With 13 subway lines and over 100 surface routes run by Japan Railways and other private companies, Tokyo’s railway system seems like it was designed to win world records. Read the rest of this entry »
(まだ評価されていません)Loading...Heart Bread ANTIQUE in Ginza
Heart Bread ANTIQUE in Ginza
Heart Bread ANTIQUE in Ginza district is now popular bakery. It opened last October and has already attracted so many people.
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(まだ評価されていません)Loading...Chocolate for Sweet St. Valentine’s Day at PRINTTEMPS GINZA 2
As I mentioned in the last story, I’ll show you some of the popular chocolate shops in PRINTTEMPS GINZA. This year’s 3 fascinating elements of chocolate are delight, sweetness, and surprise!
1st floor’s concept : “Chocolat Marche”— chocolate arousing our curiosity
There are limited and original shops to PRINTEMPS GINZA. For example, they offer rose or fruit flavored chocolate and a bar of chocolate decorated with colorful flowers.
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(1 投票, 平均値/最大値: 3.00 / 5)Loading...Chocolate for Sweet St.Valentin’s Day at PRINTEMPS GINZA
We love sweets! We enjoy this sweet chocolate season! In Japan, males get chocolate from females on St. Valentine’s Day, Feb.14th.
PRINTEMPS GINZA holds special Valentine’s fair from Jan 19th to Feb 14th. The largest number of chocolate shops ever, 68 shops, set up 5 special sites and each site has its own concept.
(まだ評価されていません)Loading...Akihabara ni oide yo! (Come on to Akihabara!)
The sacred place for anime & game fans called “Akihabara” or “Akiba”, the Japan’s largest electronics quarter. Surveys show the increasing number of foreign tourists who visit there, as the interest in Japanese pop culture grows worldwide.
We are the organization called “Akibaland Tours” who gives guided tours to you, Akiba lovers from abroad.
We give you trilingual tours in English, Chinese and Japanese. No other tours will do that.
Moreover, our guides are all COSPLAYERS!!
Akihabara is the 3D wonderland where popped up from Anime or manga to the real world.
You can gather cutting-edge informations there.
So let’s enjoy Akihabara together! Akihabara ni oide yo!
*For more details, please look at our website; http://www.akiba-tour.com
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