Today we are at Kappabashi Dori
It's a famous street full of houseware things — like kitchen stuff!
So some of you recommended it and we are checking it out today!
Oh boy!
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One of the great things about where we live is how easily we can get to Tokyo and its many wards via the Odakyu train line.
Today we’re going to the far side of Tokyo, near Tokyo SkyTree,
We’ve heard about a street that sells anything and everything you need for the kitchen.
We haven’t ever been there before, so I’m excited to see how Ruth will respond,
and a bit curious about how much she might spend.
That's cool! Look at all those cups on that building— the chef up there. They are ready for us.
They are ready! And I am ready!
Ruth's like "Let me at 'em!"
If I had more space, I would buy them because they're beautiful! And I love hot pot.
Oh my goodness, there's so many amazing things!
It's all wood, and I love wood stuff.
Oh man, I could use a new...Oh man!
I don't need this stuff, but I want this stuff.
I wonder if you'll end up buying something and what you will buy.
Oh, I will buy!
Don't touch. Don't touch, watch the bags!
So cool! This is a lunch plate!
Oh my goodness!
Look, it's a boat!
This is all paper crafts for cakes and stuff.
Oh, we're going in here!
This is awesome stuff for the coffee shop, you know? I know!
Very cool.
What kind of stuff do they have here?
They have all the molds for making cakes and chocolates, and for packaging them for selling them.
They have all the plastic molds, which are amazing. That's cool.
And all the packaging, like all the paper-wrapping stuff and cup-cakey things.
I mean, look, I could make a mini-cheesecakes in this and put a swirl on top with a lemon and still fit a lid!
Yakiniku! Very cool! Oh my.
For your own little Yakiniku place. Oh man, Yakiniku and all kinds of awesome stuff!
Great! Really interesting.
The more stores we enter, the more we can see how each store has it’s own speciality or niche.
Yes, you see lots of the same things thought the many stores,
but almost all the stores are centered around a theme or service.
Just when you thought you’ve seen it all, something unique comes along.
Get your signs! Oh, very cool.
Uh oh! Oh my freaky freaky!
Ruth found cookie-cutters. I want this one for next Christmas!
It cuts out, and you put it together like a puzzle!
I'm buying this.
Oh boy, look, it's just... Heaven!
OK Ruth, she got her first purchase
I did - at a knife shop.
But it was a cookie-cutter at a knife shop.
Oh, these are plastic.
Ruth's like "we got to keep an eye on the time because it just might get away."
Kitchen world!
This is like "Washyoku" — for Japanese kind of dishes.
I want these. Oh yes!
What are you looking for? A bowl.
Look at all of this though, wow. But I want a bowl that matches this or this.
I think you can probably find it here.
Wouldn't that be a pretty solid bowl? Yeah, that is pretty. Very cool.
It will go good with my white. It does white and blue.
The choice is yours — what do you get? Oh my goodness!
I wonder if these can go in the microwave?
I kind of like this, huh?
That and that.
What would I serve on this? Carrot sticks?
I could serve fish on this Yeah
Oh, this is so pretty.
A beautiful bowl and plate, and Ruth has found her next purchase.
Now what did we get?
Well I got some beautiful bowls... How much did it run you?
Well one bowl and one tray... Oh yes, very nice.
It ran me ¥3,000
Little did we know, we were about to discover one of Ruth’s favorite stores.
Cake supplies, cake supplies! Oh my goodness, cake supplies.
I really want one of these, but I want a little bigger mold.
Which one? Oh my goodness, Ruth!
Oh!
They have the Easter Bunny. I'm going to wait, just wait. I'm not sure about that yet.
Oh my goodness, look at this!
Oh my goodness.
This is like torture! It's torture?!
For icing...
A pizza cutter, very important for the Reutter family.
I'm getting a pizza cutter, frosting bags and a silicone little ball mold.
Nice. Nice.
Cross? Cross.
There's a whole other side of the road that we haven't seen yet!
Well...
Well I could spend hours upon hours And hundreds of dollars!
And hundreds!
There's where you were... just in there.
And now back over here.
All the plastic food that they show in the windows!
You can bring yours in and have it made like it.
That's right. Or you just find something like what you want to sell.
I need to register my presence here, otherwise you won't know that I was actually with you.
So you think I should bring my mom here?
Oh definitely.
Joanne loves little bowls. My mom does love little bowls.
There's some beautiful bowls... Oh look at that one.
I got one though that I really like.
I like that one. Oh! Beautiful.
I love that Tokyo, and other places in Japan, have entire streets and areas dedicated to one particular thing,
just like Kappabashi Dori is for kitchenware.
In a world where so much is done online, it’s refreshing to be able to shop little stores and find unique things.
OK- so they have—just look at those little bento boxes!!
I'm about to buy one just to have one!
It's a rice bowl on the head! So cool.
Oh, I might need to. Should I just buy one? Just do it? Sure.
This looks just like Ruth's style here, this store.
Sometimes I want a tiny little... Ice cream scoop?
Yeah, but I use them for cupcake dough.
Save some money to get home! I charged my PASMO before we came.
We're literally window shopping — that's what was in the window.
Oh, it's got it's own strap!
I'm going to get the bigger one.
There we go.
Time for the next purchase.
Well, more purchases in that bag!
Good thing I brought my large Life in Japan bag!
I'll take this one. It's full, oh my!
Bag 2!
Oh my goodness! Oh boy, we didn't even make it one store past...
Bullet train trays
Can you imagine if I had a set of those and whenever the little nieces and nephews came over, I fed them on that!?
They would want to eat at my house everyday.
If they weren't so expensive—I wonder if you can put ice inside of it?
So what did you think there?
Oh my goodness, I could have spent hours and hours and hours
But it's probably a good thing that I have to pick Joshua up from school
Because otherwise we would just be here until nightfall.
How much do you think you spent?
Probably ¥15,000.
¥15,000 — we'll see when we get home. About.
I bought a lot of stuff! Look what Mommy got today!
A lot of stuff, Dude!
Add up the total... Those two are almost exactly the same cost.
Ah! Just a little over ¥10,000! Just that, huh?
I should have shopped some more! Oh boy!
Well now I know what I can go back and do. You did done good!
Thanks to everyone who suggested that we go to Kappabashi Dori, what a great suggestion. We had a great time.
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