Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

At GINZA TANAKA's Ginza main store, a long-established precious metal shop facing Ginza Chuo-dori, a directly managed store of Takashi Tanaka Metals, a total of 7 items are sold, including pure gold ovals and 1,000 boxes with Disney characters.

Limited sale from Friday, June 17 to Tuesday, February 28 of next year.

During this period, it is also sold at 10 GINZA TANAKA stores including the Ginza Main Store and at GINZA TANAKA online shops.

They sell 5g, 10g, and 30g of "Disney Crystal Season Pure Gold Oval", the same series "Pure Gold Oval Box", "Gold Foil Hand Mirror", and "Platinum Foil Hand Mirror".

I saw the products displayed on the 3rd floor of the Ginza Main Store and on the crafts floor.

In the "Disney Crystal Season Pure Gold Oval", a very cute "Mickey Mouse" and "Pluto" are designed in the center of the surface. The finish is all done by craftsmen, and the golden luster and glitter are wonderful.

"Pure Gold Oval Senryo Box" is a set of 50 "Pure Gold Oval" ovals in 1,000 boxes.

The white of the outer frame of the thousand boxes is impressive, and Disney characters (Mickey, Pluto, Pooh, Dumbo, Toystories, Ana Snow, etc.) are designed on the gold leaf on the inner cover.

Disney characters are also designed for "gold foil hand mirror" and "platinum foil hand mirror", and it seems that it is the first round gold leaf and platinum foil hand mirror for GINZA TANAKA products.

These products have been sold by GINZA TANAKA as licensed products with Walt Disney Japan Co., Ltd., and are gaining popularity among a wide range of customers, including Disney fans.

Next to the Disney corner on the 3rd floor, the popular "Star Wars Jun Platinum Oval Imperial Army" is also displayed, which will be sold until October 31, this year.

It is said that there is a limited sale of 54 sets, and there is little rest.

In addition, we received special consent for photography in the store.

Thank you very much

Click here for the website of GINZA TANAKA.　⇒

http://www.ginzatanaka.co.jp/

 

 

It is rosemary sea, which covers "gifts and enjoy yourself" as a range.

　

When I am very tired, I come to amazake Yokocho.

We visited Futaba of Tofu in Yokocho, Ningyocho, amazake.

Now, in addition to products such as tofu and ganmo, there are amazake and tofu donuts that were not introduced last time.

　

I'll introduce you from amazake.

　

The name of amazake Yokocho is derived from the sweet liquor store called Owariya in the early Meiji era, which was located on the south side of the entrance of Yokocho, at the present Kyo confectionery Gyokueido (in front of Futaba's name).

Yokocho at that time was located on the south side, and it was said that the road width was narrow.

The land readjustment after the Great Kanto Earthquake has become the current width, and the name is also known as "amazake Yokocho".

The origin of amazake itself dates back to the Kofun period, and in Chronicles of Japan, there is a description of Amanotamuzake, the origin of amazake.

・・・ It's quite desensible, but in short it's an ancient Japanese drink.

amazake contains enough nutrients to be called 'drink'. It's a nutrient to drink. It seems that there was an image of a hot drink in winter, but the effects of summer batter measures, fatigue recovery, and beauty have been recognized for a long time. It has been attracting attention in recent years, but in Haiku it is a seasonal word for summer (July). In the past, amazake's peddling was common in summer.

In amazake, there are amazake made from sake cake and amazake made from rice koji. Be careful if you are not good at alcohol because amazake liquor contains alcohol. On the other hand, rice koji amazake is made by fermenting koji, and sweetness comes out at the fermentation stage, so no sugar is used, of course, non-alcoholic.

Tofu's amazake is amazake, an original brand of amazake Yokocho, and amazake made of koji from the United States, which is now attracting attention.

I asked the wife of the shop. "Our amazake is ordering production from the Izu factory. Some are made from Shiga rice, ancient rice and brown rice (top). "

This is the person who drinks amazake's food repo. I had "Amazake (cup) that can be drunk right away".

"I was able to feel the true sweetness of rice and the sweetness of nature."

　

Next is soy milk donut.

　

It seems that they use fresh soy milk made first in the morning. A healthy snack. It's popular because it's not too sweet.

Finally, the wife of the shop talks about the customer.

"It's a cycling tour, some people come by every day. I hear it's an energy charge here. ・・ ・ A foreign woman who came every day for three days while staying at a nearby hotel to eat jumbo cancer and soy milk donuts. When I talked in English, I was not good at it, vegetarian, and I came to my house because there was nothing I could eat at the hotel due to dietary restrictions. There are some foreign couples who eat at home. amazake explains in English "Farmen Ted Rice (fermented rice, translated directly: fermented rice)", but it seems to pull it once. amazake soft serve ice cream is more popular among foreigners. ・・ ・ And there are some Taiwanese people who visit the "Newcomer" location. "

　

By the way, Mr. HK, a correspondent, gave me an appropriate translation of "amazake a sweet drink made from fermented rice." Thank you, Mr. HK.

　

2-4-9, Nihonbashiningyocho　　　　０３－３６６６－１０２８

From Monday to Saturday 7:00 to 19:00, 10:00 to 18:00

Open all year round

Click here for Tofu's Futaba's homepage ⇒ http://tohutaba.com/

 

 

It is rosemary sea, which covers "gifts and enjoy yourself" as an ad balloon.

　

Today, at the offer of Mr. S Fuji at the workplace, we visited Nihonbashi Yachobei Nihonbashi Main Store, a Japanese confectionery. Thank you very much for your help. In addition to sticking to the original taste of Japanese sweets, its beauty and seasonal atmosphere are also valued. Anyway, please take a look at the product.

　

It is the standard "Tenka Taihei" from annual products. It is a bun made by wrapping a smooth koshi bean paste with a solid dough and baking it. It seems that he repeated subtle adjustments to the amount of sugar. Also, it is said that koshi bean paste is the best to make it beautiful. It seems that red beans are made from Hokkaido like mizuyokan.

　

Here is Mr. S Fuji's food repo.

　

"The shape of a round and cute sea bream. You're lucky. It's also great for celebrations. My daughter and wife bought me when my child was born. The taste is not too sweet. It's better to eat lightly."

"Goldfish scooping" is a seasonal product. Very beautiful and cool sweets.

　

If you enter the tray and decorate it in front of the shop, you will really feel like you can enjoy goldfish scooping. It's also piled up in the shop.

Goldfish made of yokan is contained in lemon-flavored jelly.

　

It will be sold until early September (Nihonbashi Main Store only).

↓　The best gift is Mizuyokan set, which is the best gift. Since it is a seasonal product, it is until mid-August.

　

Here is Rosmali's own food repo.

　

"It's not too sweet, but very smooth texture. It's smooth, so if you cool it down, the taste will be enhanced. It's a great feeling of coolness."

　

On the left, there's a lot.

This is Nihonbashi Senbei.

"Nihonbashi" Naming with the title.
It contains cream with moderate sweetness in Western-style rice crackers with a crisp texture.
Nihonbashi Senbei itself is an annual product, but Matcha is scheduled to be sold until early November as a seasonally limited edition.

The left is baked castella.

It's butter flavor. This is also very fragrant and slightly salty.
The taste of castella is condensed tightly. It is an annual product, but this "matcha" will also be sold until late August.

"Summer Festival" As a seasonal limit
Watermelon jelly (upper) and ramune jelly (lower).

The watermelon jelly takes care of the sweetness and flavor of the watermelon itself.
Lamune jelly contains apple-flavored jelly balls that resemble marbles in the taste of lamune.

There are also morning confectionery (Japanese sweets that you want to eat during that day).

1-6-2, Nihonbashimuromachi　　　　　０３－３２４２－３０３０

Business hours 9:30 to 19:00

New Year holidays are closed only on New Year's Day

Click here for Nihonbashi Ya Chobei's website ⇒ http://www.nihonbashiya.jp/

　

 

 

We shopped at Nihonbashi Nagasakikan, which is located on the first floor of Urban Net Nihonbashi 2-chome Building, facing Eitai-dori St.

"Nagasaki Specially Selected Wasanbon Castella" (Nagasaki Honpo) (left) and "Nagasaki Castella Prin" (right)

Nagasaki Castella Prin has won the Mond Selection Gold Award for the second consecutive year.

"Castella" is moist with elegant sweetness, and "Prin" is a castella flavor and smooth.

Click here for the website of Nihonbashi Nagasakikan.　⇒

http://www.nagasakikan.jp/index.html

 

 

When this sweets are displayed at the entrance of the shop, it makes you feel that summer has come again.

It is Nihonbashi Yachobei's "Seasonally-limited" goldfish scooping" on the opposite side of the new building of Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store facing Chuo-dori 1-chome, Nihonbashi Muromachi.

The place is on the map below, red.

Goldfish made of yokan swim in lemon-flavored jelly, this is a summer snack.

Even though not as modern times, the summer of the Edo period without air conditioning should have been hot, and goldfish, wind chimes, morning glory, etc. were indispensable for the people of Edo to feel cool with sight and hearing.

The fact that these sweets are sold here in Nihonbashi is also very interesting.

I bought 3 pieces. It was cooled and delicious.

I'm glad I was born to Japanese people with cool eyes and refreshing tongues.

Click here for the website of Nihonbashi Yachobei　⇒

http://www.nihonbashiya.jp/index.html

 

 

It is rosemary sea, which covers "gifts and I enjoy myself" as a territories.

　

Today, I visited Ningyocho Kusakaya, a rice cracker shop in amazake Yokocho, Ningyocho. There is our owner at the left end of the shop.

Following the previous Yuma Nihonbashi, this is the second location tour of Keigo Higashino's novel and TV drama "Newcomer" and the novel and movie "Kirin no Tsubasa" about five years ago.

Even so, in order, Kusakaya appears in the first episode in both novels and dramas. In the future, I will continue to go around the location without keeping the order.

First of all, I would like to introduce them.

　

Hand-baked rice crackers

That hand-baked rice cracker that appeared in "newcomers" as a rice cracker "Amakara".

Even now, the craftsmen bake each one with all their heart according to the manufacturing method at the time of its founding.

Mikisuke Katsura, the third generation, said that this hand-baked rice cracker was hidden in a safe so that his disciple could not eat it.

The origin of "Okoge" is that Kabuki's 17th generation Kanzaburo Nakamura, was told to burn this hand-baked rice cracker more when he was young.

　

Here, the food repo team in my workplace appeared.

Mr. Ikura. "It's light in a good sense, and it's not too hard. You can eat as many as you like."

Mr. F River. "It's very savory. The taste of soy sauce is irresistible."

Mr. Tsan, 3. "I'm not good at being too hard, but I can do it. The deep taste of soy sauce comes out of the nose. Harmony of rice and soy sauce."

In addition, okoshi, pepper, shrimp, blue seaweed, sesame, demon stick, hare Hisasuke, no raising ... I will see you.

　

There is also a great deal. The sellers are hand-baked assortment (left in the photo on the right), hand-baked and okaki assortment (right in the photo on the right), both are 2,000 yen.

Hand-baked rice crackers can also be wrapped in wrapping paper. I brought it to my husband.

　

Well, this is the secret story of shooting "Newcomer" that I kept you waiting.

From here, the daughter of the shop mainly explained. Unfortunately, we couldn't appear in the photo.

"When did you shoot 'Newcomer'? Other shops had a lot of sets, but we took them at the shop. Before the shooting began, Hiroshi Abe, the leading role, and Etsuko Ichihara, the role of grandma in Amakara, came to see and made preparations in advance. Both of you were very good. Of course, Takashi Kobayashi, the master's role, and Kyo, the daughter's role. However, Mr. Abe is natural. Our shop has a step of about 18 centimeters inside. If you take off your shoes here, your performance will be interrupted. Only when shooting, I pulled the mat so that I could go up all with my feet. After that, when recording other programs on the same TV station in the subsequent broadcast, Mr. Abe came and the other staff took off his shoes and went up, but only Mr. Abe was not on his feet. ・I don't think there was a bad mood."

"For about three months of shooting, there was a shooting here and there in Ningyocho. So even after our shooting is over, the actor staff said, "I'm sorry, please lend me a restroom." It's like that. It feels like a homey town is watching over you. (I agree with you, I love this town. "Rozmari"

"Mr. Higashino in Taiwan, dramas are popular. The books are also sold, and Mr. Abe is also very popular. People in Taiwan, the power of Asia is amazing, even now. The first customer in the morning is Taiwanese. ("Half is from Taiwan in the morning.") 」

"I also took a picture of" Kirin Tsubasa ", but it was only aired where it entered the shop. The rest is cut. Come with three trucks and replace the inside with the props you brought and the shop. I wanted to move every Saturday and Sunday for a month, replacing it with the fine sign of "Amakara". It was a moment."

"My family is a grandmother, dad and me (daughter), as in novels and dramas. But in novels and dramas, there is a scene where grandma gets sick. From others, "Grandma is okay?" That's different from the drama, but ... I was in trouble."

"Mr. Higashino, I came to the interview in advance. I didn't call myself, but I've been asking a lot of questions. In the novel modern era in 2004, about a year after the first episode appeared on the theme of "Daughter of a rice cracker shop", until the second episode began, but I thought I could read it out. One day, Kodansha contacted me that it would be a book, and this is the poster given at that time (upper left). After that, people from different customers are taking pictures from outside the shop. What are these guys? That was Mr. Higashino's novel fan. I want to make a drama immediately after that, I want to shoot ..."

　

2-20-5, Nihonbashiningyocho

At the intersection of amazake Yokocho, walk several tens of meters toward Hamacho Park and Meijiza. On the right side is Kameido, Ningyocho, famous for tile crackers. This is my synchronization, Mr. HK was introduced in May. Let's survive the summer with HK, Usako Tsukuda, Daruma, Cotton and New Face Power.

　

０３－３６６６－７３７８

Business hours 9:00 to 18:00 (Saturday 17:00)

Sunday regular holiday