Yanesen Patrol Baptism. From gourmet food to street art.
Let me introduce some of the Yanaka Digger's recommended spots that we actually visited. First, from "Yanakasou" to Yanaka Ginza. , located just before the entrance to the old-fashioned shopping street.CIBIis a concept store with its main store in Australia. The store opens at 8:00 a.m. and offers delicious coffee, breakfast, lunch, and sweets. The store also sells original goods and design products that add color to daily life. On this day, the tenugui towel brand "Kamawanu" was on display and for sale.
Go to the Yanaka Ginza shopping street. The Yanaka Ginza shopping street is lined with stores with wooden signs on their roofs. Yanesen is also famous for its cats, and as I arrived at "Echigoya Honten," admiring the cat sculptures placed here and there, I noticed cases of beer bottles piled up in front of the store. . Yes, this is a liquor store where you can enjoy a kaku-uchi (corner drinking). You can bring your own food into the store, and while drinking, you can go to nearby stores to buy some food, and enjoy a kaku-uchi while blending in with the shopping district with pancakes, kimchi, tempura, etc. Many of the customers are regulars, and they even take their dogs along. Many customers are regulars, and some locals even bring their dogs along. It is a well-known and beloved store in the town.
After Yanaka Ginza, we took a walk toward Nezu to patrol the Yanesen area. On the way there, we stopped at "Liberty", a beloved bakery in the town, with its goofy illustrations and "Liberty" typography creating the atmosphere of a famous bakery. The most popular grape bread was sold out, so I picked up their famous rabbit bread and prepared bread for breakfast.
Walking along a residential street, one suddenly encounters a variety of street art, such as street gardening that extends from the eaves of houses to the street, wall greening, and murals of cats painted with a touch of oil painting. Huge stones placed on the side of the street are probably meant to prevent cars from turning left or right, but the magic of Yanesen is that even a mere stone can be seen as a piece of art. For a moment, you are not sure if you are in Tokyo, or where you are.
After admiring the Yanesen street art, we went to a long-established bar in Nezu called "The People of the Ceiling Pier". The bar is named after the French movie of the same name, and the interior is decorated with items related to the movie, which the first owner obtained permission from the distributor.
The bar's unique atmosphere alone is enough to satisfy, but the drinks and food are just as delicious. The corned beef for the corned beef donburi was made at Koshizuka, a popular butcher store in Sendagi. The ramen I had to finish off my meal was "Umakacchan," the soul food of Kyushu people. The special toppings of red ginger, takana, egg, and nori (seaweed) are probably the best umakacchan in Japan.
