Kappabashi Kitchen Tools Street

Oh, this is the best ever experience!! If you're into kitchen utensils (and even if you're not!!) this is mind blowing awesome! This street is filled with amazing gadgets but also ridiculously gorgeous porcelain pieces. Everything you can possibly think of and more! There's a shop for every idea you can use in your own kitchen. Have fun and don't forget your bank card! 😉

Amazing street, can spend hours here. Lots of unique and home made kitchen items. Each store has different items to the one next door which makes for a great experience, you're not looking at the same price generic items over and over. Also some nice food and snack options Our favourite store was the Tsubaya cutlery store.

Love Kappabashi! Easy to spend all day here exploring your way through all of the kitchen items. Incredible selection of Japanese Knife shops as well with some of the best quality you will find in Japan. We purchased an amazing selection of knife’s from a number of different stores and ended up with some great keepsakes for our home. Can’t recommend this street enough if you love to cook and want some of the best items around for your home or commercial kitchen!

Dozens and dozens of shops catering to everything one needs for an institutional/restaurant or home kitchen. Anything from knives (of course), cups, plates, pots of any size, signs to tapestries for hanging outside or inside the restaurant (or home if you fancy). A treasure trove of goods, well worth a visit. Walk all along the street and back.

You are a chef. You should visit here. It’s heaven. There are so many beautiful and good wildlife of knifes and kitchen tools also pastry stuff. Oh I forgot plates, plates are also cheap and great quality. And you can’t miss every single stuff. It’s so cute..!

i live this place! a heaven for household daily items from knife, kitchen utensil, tablewares etc. you can spend a whole day here from shops to shops. the price are reaonable too!

do visit here if you love anything kitchenware/dinnerware/cute cutleries/cooking utensils/high quality knives. easily spent 3 hours here just on one street.

I'm not sure if this place is worth a visit. The items are mostly typical kitschware, and I found some teaware to be more expensive than at Loft. However, if you enjoy browsing eclectic collections, you might still find it interesting.

Oh, this is the best ever experience!! If you're into kitchen utensils (and even if you're not!!) this is mind blowing awesome! This street is filled with amazing gadgets but also ridiculously gorgeous porcelain pieces. Everything you can possibly think of and more! There's a shop for every idea you can use in your own kitchen. Have fun and don't forget your bank card! 😉

Amazing street, can spend hours here. Lots of unique and home made kitchen items. Each store has different items to the one next door which makes for a great experience, you're not looking at the same price generic items over and over. Also some nice food and snack options Our favourite store was the Tsubaya cutlery store.

Love Kappabashi! Easy to spend all day here exploring your way through all of the kitchen items. Incredible selection of Japanese Knife shops as well with some of the best quality you will find in Japan. We purchased an amazing selection of knife’s from a number of different stores and ended up with some great keepsakes for our home. Can’t recommend this street enough if you love to cook and want some of the best items around for your home or commercial kitchen!

Dozens and dozens of shops catering to everything one needs for an institutional/restaurant or home kitchen. Anything from knives (of course), cups, plates, pots of any size, signs to tapestries for hanging outside or inside the restaurant (or home if you fancy). A treasure trove of goods, well worth a visit. Walk all along the street and back.

You are a chef. You should visit here. It’s heaven. There are so many beautiful and good wildlife of knifes and kitchen tools also pastry stuff. Oh I forgot plates, plates are also cheap and great quality. And you can’t miss every single stuff. It’s so cute..!

i live this place! a heaven for household daily items from knife, kitchen utensil, tablewares etc. you can spend a whole day here from shops to shops. the price are reaonable too!

do visit here if you love anything kitchenware/dinnerware/cute cutleries/cooking utensils/high quality knives. easily spent 3 hours here just on one street.

I'm not sure if this place is worth a visit. The items are mostly typical kitschware, and I found some teaware to be more expensive than at Loft. However, if you enjoy browsing eclectic collections, you might still find it interesting.

Kappabashi Dogugai is one of those "oh, I should have made a list" places that I happened upon during my recent trip to Japan, and it's yet another one of those places where you can go 300 miles and an inch deep, or you can spend 3 hours staring at one thing trying to figure out if you would like to drag it back stateside. I need a list of things that I need to look for, how much they should cost, whether it's worth valuable luggage space, and how much more I would pay stateside...that is, if it's even available at all. Originally kappabashi (合羽橋) meant raincoat bridge, but kappa is pronounced the same way as the mischevious (but often friendly or helpful) minor diety of "river-child" (河童 or かっぱ in hirigana) in Japanese folklore, and it's featured in a cartoonish, duck-liked form as the mascot of the area. The local temple (Kappa-dera) is in fact often blessed by parishioners making offerings of cucumbers, which are used in folklore to earn favors from the little dieties. So, what exactly is Kappabashi Dogugai (Kappabashi equipment street)? Well, it's slightly to the north of Asakusa and is the restaurant supplier street in the Shitamachi (lower districts) side of Tokyo - it's about a 10 minute walk over from Nakamisedori / Zozo-ji and a slight bit away from a certain high grade green tea dessert shop. It plays a similar role of Bowery below Delancey street in Manhattan before the yupsters moved in, in that it's the equipment supply shops for the downtown restaurants. Need new knives? Head to Dogugai and look at the shops. What about tickets for your restaurant ticket vending machine? Yep, it's here. Need new cups or plates? Go to Dogugai. Suppose you run a Japanese penny candy (dagashi, or 駄菓子) store out in the boonies but needs a restock? Oh, there's a place or 2 for that in Dogugai. Want a Vario coffee grinder and a few bags of Ethiopian Buunii for your kissaten (Japanese style cafe) ? There's a place for that too. Hell, if you want to open up a Japanese style cafe and needs a Yama Kyoto style cold drip tower or that fancy burr grinder that gives it that extra bit of clout, well...there's a place for that too. Want that extra bit of fun and crazy? 4 of the stores here sells sampuru, or sample food models, the nifty keen fake food models commonly found outside Japanese restaurant. At least 2 will conduct workshops to teach you how to "cook" them, and they will sell you both pre-made models and DIY kits. I for one was very very tempted to buy that pizza hat... For the non-Japanese visitor the fun payoff is to look at all of the specialized gear and equipment that Japanese businesses have access to for boosting their productivity, and trying to figure out if they are also appropriate or fun for your home or business. I don't think I need that Yama ice-drip coffee tower yet but I would be lying if I didn't give it a very good hard look before turning away. So yeah, if you enjoy the typical odd mix of artful tradition, attention to detail and high technology that Japan seem to be extremely comfortable with and you have a thing for cooking, eating and kitchen gadgets, you'll thoroughly enjoy this place.

Kappabashi was exactly how I pictured it, store after store after store. You will see the nicest knives, and also a lot of other kitchen gear as well! We ended up getting items from a variety of stores, we got two kitchen knives, a mini pocket knife, manekineko (lucky cat), and matcha equipment. We loved everything we got, but just a heads up, these knives are not cheap, we spend $350 and $300 on two of the kitchen knives (that includes the cases), and then about $90 on the mini pocket knife. I must say though, they are the best knives we've ever used. Ever since I've been home, I love using them for cooking, it's so much better to use than my previous set (which is a really nice cutco set) so that says something. I highly recommend going around this area, it's walking distance from Senso-ji temple. I would splurge on a knife as well, if you cook at home, you will regret not buying one. Everyone is really friendly and helpful, you have all the assistance needed to get the right one for your needs.

Cooking up something here... Kappabashi Dōgugai is the place for all things for the kitchen...just a path right off from Asakusa Nakamise dori it's about a 10 minute walk which is just a great stroll as well as it take you past Don Quijote along a very nostalgic road filled with shops that are untouched from decades of decor. The first sign you're there is Tsubaya a popular knife shop where I've purchased various sharpeners and tools though no knives...yet, from there you have arrived! Many shops are specific to their inventory as plate ware, baking goods, all things made with bamboo, wood (bowls, plate, utensils etc..), kitchen ware (aprons, uniform gears), even that famous fake/plastic food shops each and every are so amazingly unique it's almost like a touring a museum lol! I did manage to find what I'm looking for and more as I browse many shops loving the quality for the price each brings is quite overwhelming luckily we have the staff to guide us to find what we need as the selection fun and fascinating with the various tools the kitchen trade has...which by the way majority are closed on Sundays so please avoid this day!! どうもありがとうございます！

It was fun to shop in kappabashi area . I didn't have enough time to stop by all the shops I wanted to go . Most of the shops close early like 5:00ish . most of the shop workers were so kind so I asked so many questions. they answered clearly for me .

It's a great place to spend a couple hours. It does a flea market feel of the same o same stuff from 1 vendor to the next. Some unique stuff as well here and there. This is where you go to find all the plastic food the restaurants have on display in and around the city! Super cool. Tons f chopsticks for sale, plates, chairs, generic aprons, pots, rice cookers and more. Situated between Ueno & Asakusa area.

I'm kinda of a person who can spent hours at Crate 'n Barrel or William Sonoma. And imagine that whole 1km stretch of boulevard is filled with kitchenware stores? That is this place. After going fishing trip, I desperately needed a knife for filleting fish. And I found one for roughly ¥5000. But man, this street has all kinds of kitchen gadgets from home use to industrial. They are absolutely fun to look at. Especially kitchen knives... they have sushi chefs' stuff as well. And brace yourself when you come. Tons of tourist are here.

This is "Kitchen town" where you can find all sorts of kitchenware, not to be confused with "Kitchen street" in Tokyo station (where there are all sorts of yummy eateries). Know that if you go on a Sunday, most stores are closed. Met a guy at one of the knife stores who was super friendly, fluent in Mandarin, Japanese and English, and owner of 4stores on this street. At one we purchased a set of Global knives for mom, there is one translated as "White" where every item is white and 2 other stores of his. Really admired his passion for his craft as he showed us around.

Here's my money. All of my money. Take it. Take it all. Knowing my love affair with coffee and home-brewing coffee and ceramics a friend who has travelled to Japan many times made a point of me promising I would visit Kappabashi Street. "You'll love it," he said. Book. Marked. If you've arrived by train you'll want to keep an eye out for the giant chef's head on the side of a building. When you see that you know you've arrived. This street is for the serious food lover, kitchen gadget addict and, it's real purpose, restauranteurs. There's a shop for every need imaginable from cast iron plates to fake bowls of ramen, ceramics, coffee brewing equipment or take-away containers. It's literally a one-stop-shopping-street. For me, the main focus was Hario / Chemex coffee equipment and ceramics. Thankfully this made our walk up and down the street an easy and efficient one. The two main ceramic shops that I'd consider worth your time are on the first stretch of the road and Union Coffee is where you'll find most of the coffee equipment you'd be chasing. As with most shopping in Japan it is worth carrying cash with you as many don't have the option to pay by card or they have high minimum spends.

Wonderful area to browse around shops there sell a lot of kitchen gadgets, signs, plastic display foods, knives and there are a lot of eating places around the area too. I always find it interesting watching tourist buying things and wondering how they are going to get that in their suitcases. The area is a little older so it has a nice charm to it.

I'm in love with this street! It took a lot of strength to not buy every kitchen gadget I saw. I strolled into a tiny store and I found a contraption that toasted bread into flower-shaped cups. I bought it for my mom and she loved it! She's been coming up with recipes to show it off. Even if you're not into kitchen gadgets, it's still a nice place to visit because it's such a unique place.

This place is amazing! Try to go on a week day, being cash! If looking strictly for pottery there's this store in my uploaded pics that had the best deal on dishes (few tens cheaper than the others) - it was located towards the farther west part of the street around the that intercepts the street running directly infront of Senso ji. If looking for chop sticks that look good and are better priced there's a small store almost directly across the pottery store I just talked about ( it's small, owned by a short older super nice lady and an older gentlemen). Same chop sticks or worse looking were 2-800 more. Knives are expensive everywhere.

This place isn't far from the shrine, but it was quiet when we browsed through the street. I wanted to see the shellac fake foods which were awesome to see. Lots of opportunities to browse and buy ceramic bowls, restaurant equipment, and more.

Another one of those 'Japan experience' for everyone. It's not just an area for tourists, a lot of locals like to come here and check out the shops as well! This is a long street with shops selling all sorts kitchen related items. Anything you can think of anything that you can't come up with you will find at Kappabashi. Some shops include high quality knife stores, shops selling all sorts of kitchen bowls, pots & pans, restaurant signs, restaurants uniforms and of course, fake plastic sample foods. These are always popular as gifts to take home.