Retro Otaku Culture and Tasty Street Food in Nakano Broadway & Sun Mall

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In the midst of Japan’s “tsuyu” rainy season, Shizuka explores the covered “shotengai” (shopping street) and otaku paradise of Nakano Broadway in west Tokyo!

Nakano is known for the iconic 225-meter-long Nakano Sun Mall Shopping Street, with over 100 shops touting hot and fresh Japanese street food and inexpensive clothing. The covered shopping street in Tokyo is the perfect place to visit on a rainy day, and it feeds directly into Nakano Broadway, a shopping complex which has entire floors dedicated to Japanese subcultures like anime, manga, train merchandise, and retro memorabilia. Much like Akihabara, Nakano is a hub for Japanese pop culture. However, where Akihabara is modern and fast-paced, Nakano focuses on Japan’s nostalgic past.

Cheap and filling Japanese street foods are abundant in Nakano Sun Mall and Nakano Broadway’s depachika (basement food hall). In this video, Shizuka visits a couple of family-run shops including Oyakidokororefutei Nakano which serves up imagawayaki, and Umeya which has classic Japanese desserts like kuzumochi and anmitsu. And of course, when in Nakano, you have got to try tsukemen, the Japanese style of dipping ramen which was invented in the 1950s in Nakano!

Featured Foods:
1- Imagawayaki (Oyakidokororefutei Nakano)
2- Karepan curry bread (Temma Curry)
3- Kuzumochi (Umeya)
4- Chicken soup tsukemen (Shanghai Menkan Nakano)
5- 8-flavor ice cream tower (Daily Chico)

This video was filmed on July 7, 2020, after Japan’s state of emergency was lifted in May.

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