These are my favorite spots at Tokyo Station
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I'm back in the new year
and we're here today at Tokyo Station
I wanted to show you some of my favorite spots
Just this last August there was a complete renovation
and this whole new place has kind of changed
They've added 66 stores
with a total of 153 stores now
And it's just so much to see and do
that I wanted to reintroduce this place today
Basically what Tokyo Station has tried to do
has turned this place into its own little city
Which basically means you can hang out here
the entire day if you wanted
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All right, let me show you around
Here's a low down on Tokyo Station
First, you gotta be aware
that the shops are located both
on the inside of the station ticket gates as well as on the outside
It could be confusing for first timers
but I'll do my best to walk you through
GRANSTA, which I'm taking you to first,
is inside of the gates
While the Ichibangai area is located outside of the gates
In fact, there are several different areas
within the Ichibangai side
We'll get to that later
First let's start from inside of the gates
in the brand new area of GRANSTA
The one thing about Tokyo Station
is that there's just so much shops
You can see there, and then behind me here
There's just so many things to buy, see, and eat
From the existing bento shops they've added shops like
the sake bar 'Hasegawa Saketen',
a Calbee and Tokyo Bananas collab shop 'Jaga Boulde',
an Edo-style soba shop 'Rokusuke soba'
#1 Standard Bakers Tokyo
This bakery is coming straight from Utsunomiya, Tochigi
and they make one of the dreamiest and creamiest
cream buns out there
Almost like a creampuff,
This is the 'Goyoran Egg Cream Bread'
You can see it's like nice and crumbly on the outside
Really soft
And the one I got right now is still warm
It's just straight out of the oven
Let me just show you what's inside
That custard cream is so smooth,
it's almost like a pudding in here
They use an egg from Tochigi
and milk from Hokkaido
The roast bread is super moist
Upper portion of it is nice and crumbly
It kind of has a sugary crumble to it
I'm going to show you how drippy it is
Wow, look at that
Just oozing out
You guys have to come to this place
This place is amazing
#2 Nippon Ramen Rin Tokyo
This clear shoyu ramen shop is a collaboration with
JR and the Japanese Ramen Noodle Lab Q
An ultra popular ramen shop in Hokkaido
So I had to take you guys to this
and show you a ramen spot today
Look at that beautiness
It looks so simple, but it is so complicated
with all the different flavors it has
Just have some of the soup right here
That broth is amazing
Look at that broth right there
What's amazing about it is that there's
three types of Hokkaido chicken in there as well as pork
And they have five types of shoyu
just to make this a complicated flavor
Look at the noodles too
Man, I just love how the noodles
pick up all of the flavor from the broth
This soup is just so amazing
It has some onions on here, that has some seaweed right there
It even has some slivers of bamboo here
Look at this luscious piece of pork
And this slice is perfectly cooked
If you like pork like me, then you should get the special set
Special set comes with
three different kinds of pork,
more onions, and it has additional seaweed
And it comes with an egg as well
Throw that egg in there
I'm just going to stick all of the meat in here as well
Get it soaking up in all of that broth
I just love playing with all of that meat
and dipping it in the broth
and have it soak up all of that flavor
The pork itself almost has a smoky taste to it
It hasn't been cooked,
but they've also flavored the pork
Every single bite is a tender loving experience
Have a bite of this egg
Wow, a lot of flavor to that egg too
That is a nicely marinated egg
It has kind of that runny middle
If you have one ramen spot to go to at Tokyo Station,
go to this place
#3: Kasho Sanzen
This shop is famous for Sendai's souvenir 'Hagi no Tsuki'
and it sells the white version of it called 'Hagino Shirabe Ko'
They use white egg to create their beautiful white custard cream
It's one of the top selling souvenirs sweets in GRANZA
and there's always a line, so plan ahead
Check this out,
I got a sweet custard cream wrapped in a sponge cake
It has these little bunnies on top as well
Looks pretty premium
I got the set of four
and you can see just how premium it's wrapped
Let me open it up
Look at that
Feel that texture right there
It's really spongy
Nice moistness to it as well
Let's take a bite
That is delicious
It has a little bit of an egg taste to it,
but not too much
The texture of the custard is quite thick
You can see how thick that custard is
It's not falling apart, it's pretty consistent
And just wrapped up into this nice sponge cake
Oh it's beautiful
The sponginess is moist, but it's not too moist
which is really cool
I can probably have all four of them to myself
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let's continue on with our tour
#4: Kakunoshin Hambagu and Bar
This hamburger specialty shop
is well known for its aged beef
They use a special Kanzaki aged beef
as well as platinum pork, both from the Iwate prefecture
and combine it with their secret ingredient
salt marinated rice malt
Just look at that beautiful cheese burger
In Japanese it's called 'hambagu'
There is no bun, but just the lovely meatness right here
It even comes with a side of bacon
I just can't wait
First what you need to do
is you need to take the egg right here
and just mix it a little bit like that
You get all the white yolk all mixed in
and then you just drip it over the hambagu
Just like that
That looks amazing
This is Kuroge Wagyu beef and it's dry aged
so you get all of that condensed umami
Wow that umami is so intense
That is one of the most flavorful bites
I've had in a long time
Kind of paired in with the egg and the onions
And that melty cheese on top is just luscious
It's almost so flavorful that
you need some rice in there
just to soak up all of that flavor
And what's so special about this place
is you can choose from three different sauces
This time I got the 'gyusho'
The secret sauce 'gyusho'
was created to enhance the umami of the aged meat
It's made from a black hair kuroge wagyu
and it's fermented to perfection
Just a few drops of their sauce
will bring the house down
#5: Captain Cheese
A name fitting for this cheese sweets shop
Their mini cheeseburger has that Japanese style cuteness
and is a perfect souvenir gift idea
They use butter flavored cookies for the buns,
cheddar chocolate for the cheese,
and a whipped chocolate cream for the center
I got the cheese and chocolate burger
It's like in a burger case
You get three little burgers
You can in fact buy these
individually wrapped if you wanted to
Such a cute little treat
Cheddar chocolate, a little bit, tastes like cheese
But it does also have that chocolate taste to it as well
The cookie itself is kind of like a biscuit and it's crumbly
It's like a perfect gift for the kids just to have fun
If you're getting on the train
or you're bringing something back home
Now let me take you outside of the ticket gates
to the Ichibangai area
Tokyo Station even has
'Okashi Land' also known as 'Sweets Land'
Let me show you inside
A house made of all sweets
Look, they even have street fighter Pocky
And look just to the window they make
fresh fries right in front of your face
Look at that, I got a fresh fried potato Calbee chips
It's so hot, almost gonna burn my hand
So much better getting it freshly fried like this
It's the most popular item they have in the store
If you're with a bunch of family and friends
and you want a little bit of variety
then you should come here to ramen street
because there's so many different ramen shops
that you can choose from
Let me show you around
Ramen street has eight renowned
"Just take my money" ramen shop
So even if you come here for a week straight
you can eat that good good
each day and still have one left over
to start the next week
And this is Character Land
It has a bunch of toy shops,
character shops and some other pretty cool stuff
Let's look around
Character Street has Jump Shop, Crayon Shinchan, LEGO shop,
and lots of others
Wow, check it out
they even have Super Mario World LEGO item
They have a Pikachu Tokyo Station eki-in
That's so cool
Look they even have neko bus pillows
And if you go up on the second floor of Ichibangai,
you'll find the Tokyo Gourmet Zone,
where many izakaya drinking restaurants and bars
are lined up for your pleasure
Also, you'll find many office workers
here during the week grabbing a drink after work
as it's super convenient to catch a train when you finish
Now we're in the Tokyo Gourmet Zone
and the next one, I'm really excited to show you
#6: Beer House Moriu
If you're a drinker on a budget,
then look no further than this happy hour spot
I had to share this place
because if you're here, you want to take a little break
Especially if you're coming here on the weekdays,
they have happy hour until six
and on the weekends until five
290 yen for a full glass of beer
That is amazing
290 yen, can't beat that
That's like $2.50
How many of these can you drink?
What a way to spend time at the station
Have some food, chill, have a beer
and then go on your way
wherever you are going in this world
But I wouldn't do this place justice
if I didn't show you the sampler set
I had to bring the camera down
a little bit lower so we can get this
We have 'neko panchi' which is like cat punch
We have a 'vector' and we also have 'glamourous'
Let's just taste this
That one is quite light, I like it
That's a little bit more bitter
And that is definitely an IPA so if you
So, if you want to have a happy hour beer,
or if you want to sample some local Japanese beers,
definitely come to this spot
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