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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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  • 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 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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  • Kappabashi Chef, the symbol of  Kappabashi, an area of Tokyo that 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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  • 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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