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Kappabashi Images

17 images Created 11 Dec 2013

The restaurant supply district of Kappabashi is for restauranteurs and chefs, gourmets and anyone who likes to cook to stock their kitchens and restaurants. If something is found in the kitchen, there's likely to be a shop in Kappabashi that specializes in it.
It is famous for its plastic food models as restaurants in Japan display these food models in front of their venue - these are sold in Kappabashi shops, notably at renowned Maizuru where the samples look amazingly real.
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  • Kappabashi Wooden and Lacquer Bowls - Kappabashi is a street in Asakusa devoted to shops supplying the kitchen and restaurant trade. These shops sell everything from knives, restaurant decorations, tableware, glassware - you name it.  It is most famous for its plastic display food samples found in Japanese restaurants to display their menus. The street has also become an offbeat tourist destination thanks to the wacky displays and unique items found only in Japan.
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  • Kappabashi Plastic Sushi - Kappabashi is a Tokyo street entirely given over to shops supplying the restaurant trade selling everything to do with kitchen and restaurant supplies: from knives, restaurant decorations, plastic display food samples found in Japanese restaurants to display their menus.
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  • Noren Shop in Kappabashi,  a street in Tokyo which is almost entirely populated with shops supplying restaurant businesses. These shops sell everything from knives, restaurant decorations, noren curtains found at Japanese restaurants to show if they are open. The street has also become an offbeat tourist destination thanks to the wacky displays and unique souvenir items found only in Japan.  The street's name is believed to come from the popular mythical creature, the Kappa, a Japanese water demon.
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  • Kappabashi Kitchenware Cookie Cutters -  Kappabashi shops sell everything from knives, restaurant decorations, and kitchen ware.  It is well known for its colorful plastic display food samples found in Japanese restaurants to display their offerings.
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  • Kappabashi Glassware Store; - Kappabashi is almost entirely made up of stores that supply restaurants. The shops sell everything from restaurant decorations, knives, cutlery and famously plastic display food samples that are to be found at restaurants in Japan - to display menus.
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  • Kappabashi Ceramics Display - Kappabashi is a street in Tokyo full of shops supplying the restaurant trade with everything from ceramics, glassware, knives, restaurant decorations.
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  • Kappabashi Plastic Spaghetti - Kappabashi, an area of Asakusa Tokyo, has long been a popular shopping area for chefs and people in the restaurant trade.  In recent years, it has become a tourist attractions thanks to its wacky displays of plastic sushi, suspended pasta and noodles and other lifelike replicas of food and drinks
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  • Plastic Ice Cream in Kappabashi, an area of Asakusa Tokyo, that has long been a popular shopping district for chefs and the restaurant trade.  It has become a tourist attractions thanks to its offbeat displays of plastic ice cream, sushi and noodle replicas of food.
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  • The Kappa Kawataro is a water spirit of Japan, with webbed hands and feet and a tortoise shell.  Crowning their head of page-boy style hair is a circular depression filled with water.Such demons are said to be the ghosts of drowned souls.  They have immense strength - the source of this power comes from the stored water within the dish on their head.  Activities from this demon can range from mischievous to deadly. It enjoys passing gas and forever gives off a fishy odour.  The kappa enjoys vegetarian cuisine particularly eggplants and cucumbers.
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  • Kappabashi Mural - Kappabashi is a district in Tokyo with shops supplying the restaurant trade that sell everything from glass, ceramics, knives, and food decorations.  Kappabashi is probably most famous for its ubiquitous plastic display food replicas found in Japanese restaurants to display their items.
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  • Kappabashi Kitchenware Shop - Kappabashi is a district in Asakusa Tokyo dedicated to shops supplying the restaurant trade which sell everything from cutlery, glassware,cutting boards, food decorations as well as the unique plastic display food samples that make unique souvenir items found only in Japan.
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  • Kappabashi Chef at the top of the Niimi Building -Kappabashi has become an offbeat tourist destination thanks to the wacky displays and unique souvenir items found only in Japan.  The street's name comes from the popular mythical creature the Kappa, a Japanese water demon.
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  • Kappabashi Second Hand Kitchenware Shop - Kappabashi specializes in shops for the restaurant trade that sell everything related to food and Japanese restaurants.  .
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  • Kappabashi Basket Shop - Baskets and wickerware shop in Kappabashi, the restaurant and kitchenware district of Asakusa, Tokyo.
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  • Kappabashi Chef Town - Kappabashi is a street in Tokyo which is almost entirely populated with shops supplying the restaurant trade. These shops sell everything from knives, restaurant decorations, plastic display food samples found in Japanese restaurants to display their menus. The street has also become an offbeat tourist destination thanks to the wacky displays and unique souvenir items found only in Japan.  The street's name is believed to come from the popular mythical creature, the Kappa, a Japanese water demon.
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  • Kappabashi Knife Shop - Kappabashi is a street in Asakusa almost entirely specialized in stores for the restaurant industry. These stores sell knives, decorations, plastic food samples, glassware, chopsticks, chopstick holders, coffee beans and anything related to food and restaurants.
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  • Kappa - mythical, supernatural creatures are a product of the Japanese imagination.  Living on both land and water, they have snouts as well as fins, shells on their backs and a water filled dish on their heads.  As long as the dish is full of water, Kappa keep their powers.  Kappas Kawataro are known to be fans of Sumo wrestling and cucumbers, thus the "kappamaki' rolls found in sushi.  Kappabashi, the chef and kitchenware area of Asakusa, Tokyo renowned for plastic food.
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