Kappabashi-dori

Our new flat is located just off Kappabashi-dori (Kappa Bridge street). This street (and surrounding ones) are notable for selling everything you might need to open your new restaurant, from pots big enough to cook small children in, to waiter and sushi chef uniforms, to the plastic food that is on display outside many Japanese restaurants. Apart from this, they also have everything you might need in your own kitchen at home. You want Japanese tea boxes, a Damascus steel chef knife or, say, carp shaped chopstick rests? No problem.

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