AMEYA YOKOCHO in Ueno, Tokyo. Known as "AMEYOKO".
From JR Ueno Station to Okachimachi Station,
About 400 stores gather around the guard of about 450 meters,
A shopping street that represents Tokyo.
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Mar 31, 2023
EVENT
Brand from Canada【TAIKAN】POPUP OPEN
The street brand "TAIKAN" from Vancouver, Canada will hold its first POPUP at the new spot "Coffee by Jalana" in Ameyoko. It is a valuable event where you can get your hands on SS products that have just launched. In this POP UP, many unique items such as bags and apparel are available, including the latest collection. There are few opportunities to actually pick up items of the same brand that does not have stores in Japan. What is TAIKAN… Quoted from official Instagram
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Mar 15, 2023
EVENT
【Art exhibition held】Media art that brings a refreshing experience to the new era「BOT-ON」
A media art exhibition "BOT-ON" is being held at Ueno Ameyoko Plaza for a week from 3/11 (Sat) to 3/19 (Sun). , Passers-by stop involuntarily The same exhibition using a vacant store in Ueno Ameyoko Plaza. The illuminated restrooms create a strange atmosphere among apparel stores and restaurants. It faces the main street of Ameyoko, and passers-by seem to stop involuntarily. There are also foreign tourists who take photos out of curiosity. (*The toilet uses unused items, so there is n
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Feb 22, 2023
EVENT
【Good Valley Market】POPUP vol.2
"Good Valley Market (@goodvalleymarket)", which runs a second-hand clothing store quietly in a house in Moriya City, Ibaraki Prefecture, will hold its second POPUP at Coffee by Jalana. This time, we will also hold a limited event for collaboration sweats and custom order prints. At "Good Valley Market", we sell used items selected from the shop's own point of view, regardless of age, with a focus on US items. From sweatshirts with unusual tags to blank body selections carefully se
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Jan 23, 2023
GOURMET
AMEYOKO Ramen
If you want to eat delicious ramen in Ameyoko, we would like you to refer to this ramen special feature. 5 carefully selected stores from famous stores to individual stores The Ueno area is said to be a fierce battleground for ramen. There are many famous stores. This time we will focus on the shops in Ameyoko. The editors who work in the Ameyoko area carefully select and introduce the ramens that we think are really delicious. "Chuka Taiko "「Ramen」 long-established Chinese sob
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Dec 29, 2022
SHOP
【Japan’s first knife specialty store】MARUKIN-SHOTEN
Opened in 1949, Japan's first knife specialty store "Marukin Shoten" History of the shop In 1949, not long after the war, the first owner opened a store at the current location in Ameyoko. In the 1960s it became a cutlery specialty store of Solingen, Germany, a city famous for cutlery. In 1970, the current president was inspired by American knives, and started to handle outdoor knives purchased locally. At that time, there weren't a lot of the sales of knives in Japan. Under such c
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Dec 14, 2022
EVENT
[Interview with the manager VOL.3] Suzuki [GARAKUTA TRADING]
"Manager interview in AMEYOKO", where you can ask the store manager, who usually watches Ameyoko carefully, about Ameyoko. The third is about 20 years of Ameyoko history. Mr. Takao Suzuki, manager of Garakuta Trading, which handles a wide range of goods, from clothes to toys! Takao Suzuki (GARAKUTA trade store manager) 20代の頃からアメ横に属し約２０年街の成長を見続けてきたベテラン。様々なカルチャーが混ざり合うカオス的なア。様々なカルチャーが混ざり合うカオス的なアメ横に魅力された『ガラクタ貿易』の名物店長。 "Various things mix in a well-balanced town. A place that makes
THE WAY to AMEYOKO
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JR
JR Ueno Station “Central Exit”：1 minute walk
JR Okachimachi Station “North Exit”：1 minute walk
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Tokyo Metro
Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line / Ginza Line Ueno Station “Exit 5B”：2 minute walk
Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line Nakaokachimachi Station “A2 / A5 / A7 Exit”：2 minute walk
Tokyo Metro Ginza Line Uenohirokoji Station “A2 / A5 / A7 Exit”：2 minute walk
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Toei Oedo Line
Toei Oedo Line Ueno Okachimachi Station “Exit A7”：2 minute walk