This video follows a full street food tour through Tokyo’s famous Ameyoko market. Vendors line the narrow walkways with sizzling grills, steaming pots, and colorful snacks. Each stall reveals a new ...

Ameyoko, short for Ameya Yokochō, is a lively shopping street in northeastern Tokyo, running for 500 meters between Ueno and Okachimachi Stations on the Yamanote Line. The area first flourished as the ...

Ameyoko Shopping Street, Officially known as Ameya Yokocho (which translates to “candy store alley”) but most often referred to simply as Ameyoko, you won’t find any candy stores here nowadays. You ...

The Ameyoko shopping street is seen bustling with fewer customers than in a usual year, in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on Dec. 29, 2020. (Mainichi/Kentaro Ikushima) TOKYO -- Although the effects of the new ...

When people think of Ueno, such attractions as its famous park, with the zoo, national museums and historic temples come to mind. Then for shopping bargains, there's Ameyoko, a colorful street running ...

Cheap is the new chic in a country where consumers until recently thought nothing of splashing out 10,000 yen (HK$840) at a department store on a single gift-wrapped melon. Falling consumption coupled ...

There are two sides to Tokyo’s Ueno neighborhood, both literally and figuratively. Head out one side of the station, and you’ll find yourself in Ueno Park, a sprawling park that’s home to many of the ...

TOKYO -- The Ameyoko shopping street in the Ueno district of the capital's Taito Ward was crowded on Dec. 28 with customers wearing masks seeking ingredients and other items for the New Year holiday ...