Kappabashi Street – Kitchenware Town

A visit to Kappabashi Street, the heart of Kitchenware Town is a must for all those in the food and hotel industry. This is the street to find bargains on kitchen utensils, Japanese porcelains, lacquerware, bento boxes, trays, baskets and knives! There are so many knife shops in this street and the craftsmen making the knives are usually there to explain the knives. They will even engrave your names in Katakana (Japanese alphabets for foreign words) while you wait. In this street and the neighbouring side streets you will also find shops taking orders to make plastic dummy pieces of your original food. You need to give them photographs of your food and they will craft mouth watering plastic pieces of it!! You will also come across many small shops selling paper lanterns, wooden Japanese toys, painted silk panels, aprons, chefs uniforms and so many other things.