My visit to Tokyo 2018 (22)

Ameyayokocho

On the 5th of November I visited Ameyayoko-cho  (アメヤ横丁 ). According to the Tokyo Travel Guide this area is “crowed with stores offering clothes, miscellaneous goods, fresh fish and dried food”. It is located right next to and below the railway lines elevated by bridges above. I entered this street from the direction of the Ueno JR Station.

A map that shows the location of Ue Chyuu

Ameyayoko-cho has long streets with all kinds of shops and restaurants. After walking along the street for about 10 minutes, I reached a junction and the street was branched into the Ameyoko (アメ横) and Ue Chyuu (上中). 

Ue Chyuu

Ameyoko

The shops in these three streets were similar. As a group they formed a marketing region, but it was not an ordinary Japanese market.  It was a China/Philippines/Vietnam/Thai market.  Many SE Asian who lived in Tokyo were seen here buying all kinds of daily commodities, meanwhile some of the food stores here were run by them.  The food price offered here was generally cheap. There were also many small food shops. Some of them had a few small tables and chairs so that customers could sit down to eat after ordering the food. Apart from food stores, there were also some seafood stores, their outlook was just like the ones in Tsukiji (築地) market. There were some clothing shops, shoe shops and some sweets shops that sold candy and the like in a souvenir package. Ameyayoko-cho is a good place for those foreigners who are in a hurry  and would like to do some quick shopping at one single location.

Sea Food Store

Sea Food Store