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- A travel guide for visiting
Ameyoko Market in Tokyo, Japan.
Ameyoko is short for Ameyayokocho,
which literally translates to candy alley.
This nero alley,
right next to the Yamanote Line train tracks
historically sold candy.
Today, it is a busy market selling everything
that a tourist could ever want,
and even things that locals want
for their day to day necessities.
The market is located right
across the street from Ueno Station.
Once you get to Ueno Station,
it's pretty easy to get to the market.
Just head out the Shinobazu Exit.
After you go out the Shinobazu Exit,
cross the street at this really wide crosswalk,
and you can cross it kind of diagonally to the right,
and then you will see Ameyayokocho here,
underneath this arch.
The market is primarily on the side
of the tracks, close to Ueno Park,
but the market extends underneath the tracks,
and there's also shops on the other side of the tracks too,
not officially part of Ameyoko there though.
The shops in the market are typically open
from 10am to 8pm almost every day, except Wednesday.
Wednesday many of the shops are closed,
so Wednesday might be a good day to skip Ameyoko Market.
Now that you've got a general idea of Ameyoko market,
let's take a deeper look into the really intriguing shops
and stalls that are in this market.
Japan has some of the best tasting melon anywhere.
If you've never had Japanese melon,
there's stalls here selling melon
on a stick for 100 or 200 yen.
Give it a try; it's really delicious.
This shop sells custom T-shirts for you or for your pet.
That's cool.
Belts, 500 yen.
How can you go wrong with a five dollar belt,
as long as they keep your pants up, right?
Ties for 700 yen, that's about seven bucks.
Bags, in case you need a bigger bag
to carry around your stuff in.
Sunglasses, in case it's a bright day.
Umbrellas, in case it's a wet one.
There's also an outpost of Marion crepes here,
which has these really cool Japanese crepes.
If you've never had one, pick one up here.
I like the ones with strawberries.
Japanese drugstores are often popular with tourists.
There's an outpost of Matsumoto KiYoshi
with the signature blue and yellow building.
If you want to try your skill or luck at some crane games,
there's a taito game station.
They've also got some of the latest Japanese video games
and of course, sticker picture machines.
Some of the most popular are music games like popnmusic,
across it, driving games are also very popular.
Just past Taito game station,
there is a pachinko parlor Espace.
If you want to see what Japanese do to relax the time away,
go into this really noisy smokey place.
You can hear the sound just as the door opens.
There's a capsule hotel.
This is one of these famous Japanese things
that you basically sleep inside one of these capsules.
They're really not meant to stay for a long time.
They're kind of meant if you missed the last train.
It's for men only.
And the rates, if you just want to sleep in a capsule,
it's 3,000 dollars for the night.
Or a short stay capsule,
you're just 8 hours and you can't leave, is 1,800 yen.
This shop sells seafood.
This is pickled octopus.
Sushi ginger.
Seaweed.
Crabs.
Or, if you prefer, just crab legs.
Or maybe just some sashimi for your sushi.
This store has tons of varieties of shrimp and fish.
In case you're wondering if you had smell-avision,
you'd be smelling some fish right about now.
In addition to food and greens,
there's also a number of stalls that sell prepared food,
japanese food, and well, middle eastern food.
This Oskar Kebab, he was the coolest.
- [Cameraman] What do you sell? Kebab?
- Kebab!
- [Cameraman] Kebab!
- Kebab!
- [Cameraman] Nice, nice.
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