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21 places across Japan and South Korea
Yanaka Ginza
A single shopping street the war and the developers both missed.
Nishiki Market
Kyoto's kitchen, four hundred metres long and one shop deep.
Kuromon Ichiba Market
Six hundred metres of grilled scallops and knife shops.
Hōzenji Yokochō
A stone alley of old kitchens, a block from the neon.
Tsukishima Monja Street
Seventy shops cooking the same runny pancake.
Ameyoko Market
A postwar black market that never closed.
Tsukiji Outer Market
The wholesale market left, the good food stayed.
Nonbei Yokochō
Forty postwar bars in the shadow of the tracks.
Omoide Yokochō
Yakitori smoke in a lane the width of a corridor.
Sangenjaya Sankaku Chitai
A triangle of lanes that survived every redevelopment.
Ebisu Yokochō
A covered market turned into twenty bars.
Harmonica Yokochō
A hundred shops in a block you could throw a stone across.
Toyosu Market
The tuna auction, seen from a glass walkway.
Pontochō
A lane one person wide, running beside the river.
Demachi Futaba
The mame-mochi worth standing in line for.
Fushimi Sake District
White-walled breweries along a willow canal.
Fukushima Izakaya Alleys
One stop from Umeda, and where Osaka actually drinks.
Tsuruhashi Korea Town
The oldest Korean quarter in Japan, and it smells like it.
Jan Jan Yokochō
A narrow arcade of kushikatsu counters and shogi parlours.
Nakatanidō
They pound the mochi at terrifying speed, in the street.
Komachi-dōri
The eating street from the station to the shrine.