Kappabashi - Kitchen suppliers to Tokyo

I decided to try, again, to find Kappabashi and this time I managed not to get lost and have a little look around. This street has eight blocks of any sort of kitchenware that anyone could want including knives, bowls, plates, cooking equipment, shop fittings, uniforms, signs, etc. Basically anything you need to establish or maintain a restaurant you can find in this street. To give some hint there is a shop called “Kitchen world”.

The main reason I wanted to find this area was to look at the plastic food shops. This area is supposed to be the home of the plastic food replica. A lot of restaurants and cafes in Japan have plastic replicas of the food they serve in their restaurants out in display cases on the street to entice you in. There was the mandatory sushi represented in the model but also beer, fruit and deserts. Some of the deserts looked almost good enough to eat.