Tokyo Ueno｜Ueno Ameyoko Shopping Street A bustling "Showa retro" food and shopping paradise!

🛍️Tokyo Ueno｜Ueno Ameyoko Shopping Street 🎌 A bustling "Showa retro" food and shopping paradise!

Just a short walk from Ueno Station, the lively "Ameyoko Shopping Street" stretches under the train tracks. Its official name is "Ameya Yokocho (Ameyoko)," a historic street that began as a postwar black market. Today, it is one of Tokyo’s most famous shopping streets, attracting over 100,000 visitors daily🌟

From fresh food to imported sweets, apparel, cosmetics, watches, and miscellaneous goods, you can find everything here, and just walking around is endlessly exciting✨ The energetic voices of shop staff and the lively bargaining over bargains make you feel like you’ve wandered into a foreign bazaar🎉

One of the joys of Ameyoko is the street food. The variety is rich, from fresh tuna bowls, grilled soup dumplings, skewers, tapioca, to Korean food🍢🍣 You can enjoy eating while walking around like at a food stall, or stop by a standing bar for a drink—it's also a playground for adults🍺

The year-end tradition "Ameyoko Big Sale" is especially spectacular. The street is packed with shoppers seeking king crabs and herring roe—people, people, people! The festive atmosphere is loved as a winter tradition in Tokyo⛄

📍Access: A short walk from JR and subway "Ueno Station" and "Okachimachi Station"
🕰Business hours: Vary by store (most are 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM)

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Post by taniさん | Jul 6, 2025