Welcome to Ameyoko market here in Okachimachi in central Tokyo

This place is known for having some really big discounts and it's known for having some of the best street food in the city

Ameyoko market is about four hundred meters long located along the Yamanote line train tracks between Wano and Okatchimachi station

You can see that it is lined with loads of shop stalls

And no doors meaning that you can quickly communicate with the vendors and it also gets loud as they try to sell to people passing by

Now let's get some Street food!

This place is pretty amazing and quite famous

They have dozens of different kinds of kisendon's

Kisendon is a bowl filled with different kinds of seafood on it this one is the number one most famous one here

It's called the Tokymoridon so let's go in and try it

This is an amazing Kisendon, it's got a little bit of everything you see here maguro, tuna, salmon

Squid fish eggs, ikura and negitoro which is minced up

Maguro with leeks inside of it. It's really good

And the wasabi right here, which you mix in with some soy sauce and pour on top of it

It's an incredible meal for just seven dollars and it's one of the discounts that you can find here

Ameyoko market now, let's give this thing a try

kisendon is basically a sushi salad

Seafood on rice all the tastes come together in one Bowl instead of individually like sushi. It's really good!

This is a steep discount compared to the skigi market

Not far away is a takoyaki stand these grilled octopus balls or dumplings are a favorite snack

japan's ultimate street food!

This is one of the more famous takoyaki places because of the size and the price you can get four

Massive takoyaki's for just 200 yen

That's less than $2!

You can get two for another hundred yen up to eight in a trey

The shop makes them pretty fast and there's almost always a line

There's also another attraction to this place. You can put on your own toppings

katsuabushi fish flakes, seaweed, sauce and

Japanese mayonnaise

You also get a very generous piece of octopus

That's a mark of good takoyaki when the octopus inside is this big, you know, you're getting a really amazing value

But there's something that you have to remember

Don't eat these hot!!!

Let it cool for a couple of minutes and you'll enjoy them a lot more

Now let's look at what makes Ameyoko market unique... it starts with its past

The market was established after World War Two along the train line to weno as a black market for restricted or highly controlled goods

It started as one Street but now is spread to both sides of the tracks

The retro signs don't seem to have changed much over the decades

Merchants can yell out deals and attract people to stalls with deeply discounted products

At first it was sugary goods. That were very expensive during the US occupation

ame in Japanese means candy and this is one of the meanings of the name

Ameyoko but ame also comes from America meaning the goods often came from the US like sunglasses,

Chocolate, jewelry, Zippo lighters you can still see them sold here today

because nearby wano is a gateway to the city for people from Tohoku a lot of seafood from the north made its way here in the 1950s

Gradually, the market has changed with ethnic foods from abroad and even chaine shops

But the street will never lose its identity as a lively market with face-to-face communication between merchants and customers on the street

After dark the street shifts to restaurants more ethnic food on the menu that Japanese fare

Shopping in the summer can be tough. It's hot out there and the perfect street food to cool you down is a kakigori

They can be more complex than just ice with flavoring

That's awesome

So this is kakigori, this is an oji macha

Kyoto flavored kakigori you can see the green tea the onco the red bean paste they put in some milk in in there

So I get to kind of like a little bit of an ice cream consistency to it

That's really good the way that this cup is made is that as it melt and it melts super fast

you could put some of the

Green tea water or milk into this part of it and actually drink it

So it's kind of like the best of both worlds it's not just the kakigori

It's like a drink as well and that's pretty neat

On to more food, this is a new one originally from Korea this chain of deep-fried cheese is booming here in Ameyoko

None of the flavors made any sense to me deep-fried cheese, coconut, sugar, sweet spicy sauce

Check it out and they got all of these condiments that you can put on it hot. Chili, honey mustard cheddar cheese

What can the crowds be wrong? It's gotta be good

All right Let's try this!

This is really good

Crunchy oily cheesy tangy sweet. It's a universe of flavors and really fun to eat

Fruit stands here found a way to sell more fruit cut it up and put a stick through it

It's hard to pass up fresh melon on a stick for ¥100

The options are seasonal and it's the healthiest Street food here. Don't forget your vitamins and fiber

A unique combination can be found at this seafood stand Japanese sake and oysters

The shop had sake from many different areas, I got the feeling that they have a lot of regular customers after dark

I've never had oysters and sake before so this is gonna be a pretty interesting mix

But you know sake can go with just about anything even an oyster

This is one shot of sake dasai 50 and an oyster and he put a little bit of lemon on it

So he said eat it as it is. So let's give this a try first the sake

This is so good. It's one of the most sophisticated Street food combos I've ever eaten in Japan

Ameyoko's reputation as a seafood hub from Tohoku coupled with the region's love for good sake

Oh, man

What a great combination you have the oyster. You have the Sake you're in a beautiful market like this and that's like the ultimate

Part of the Ameyoko street food experience. There's such a wide diversity of food

you have takoyaki you have Kisendon you have fruits and you have

Seafood like this right on the street

Which is an amazing adventure but if you're coming to Ameyoko there's one more thing that you got to do when you come here

One of the most famous places on the street is this stand with a pretty sweet history

For the last 35 years. They've been selling discounted sweets for ¥1,000 per bag

Valued at more than twice that and they make it a lot of fun

The shop usually draws a big crowd at peak times to watch just how much stuff you can get for ¥1000 yen or about $10

Thank you

Welcome to Tokyo. And this is the last thing that you have to do when you come to Ameyoko local market

Do not miss this shop. It's been here selling chocolate for over 35 years

A long history and it's just so much fun

So there you have it. There's way more to see and eat here if you have the heart and stomach of an adventurer

Ameyoko is an authentic

Look at Tokyo's modern history where neighborhood is proud of its style and past and that's why I love it. People are friendly here!

And the food is both good and cheap

Always come hungry to Ameyoko

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