Kappabashi 2015

Kappabashi or "kitchen town" is an area that specialises in kitchen goods and everything needed in restaurants. They also sell lots of the wax and plastic food that you see outside of so many restaurants. It's withing walking distance of the temples in Asakusa. Even if you're not buying anything it's fun to look at all the plastic food and some shops sell kits for you to make your own.

In the shops there are all sorts of plastic food models: Italian food, sushi, ramen, rice bowls, nabe, ice cream, drinks, key rings with food on, vegetables, pizza, burgers, sweets, cakes. If a shop or restaurant sells the food, you can probably find plastic models of it here.

Being within walking distance of the temples I went for a quick walk down Nakamise shopping street (that road always reminds me of the school trips I went on to Tokyo). In the afternoon I went shopping in the shopping centre around the base of SkyTree. I still haven't been up the tower, I will at some point.

The next day I met Kaori in Yokohama. We used to live next door at Global House in ICU during my year abroad. So we hadn't seen each other for a few years. It was nice to catch up after so long, and hopefully we will again soon whether it's in Japan, New York, England or somewhere else in Europe.

The yummy matcha cake and matcha latte at Nana's Green Tea