Tokyo Tower Food & Souvenirs / Street food around Tokyo Tower / Japan #travel

Must-try food at Tokyo Tower and street food stroll Samurai Junjiro Channel Hi, I'm Samurai Junjiro Born and raised in Japan In today's video we'll introduce you to Tokyo Tower There will also be street food strolling around prominent area that surrounds the tower There will be guides on souvenirs and food that can only be purchased here. So stay with us to find out more Now, let's get started We are here in Azabu-Juban station Before we head straight to the tower. We'll first wander about in two areas for street food The first one being Azabu-Juban shopping street, which is in 10 minutes walking proximity from the tower This distinguished shopping street has more than 300 years of business history Let's first check out this store, Tsukishimaya The store sells Imagawayaki and began their business in 1951 The store is very well approved within the area too. Let's try steaming hot Imagawayaki As an additional note Imagawayaki is a Japanese traditional dessert made of soft flour buns with sweet fillings like sweet red bean paste and custard cream The outside has crispy feel with fluffy inside We picked custard cream this time The flavor of the egg is so strong and it tastes very rich It goes perfectly with the chewy bun We'll next be picking up the cheesecake store in Azabu called Sank Sank Many acknowledges this store as the store is regularly featured on TV and magazines There's different kind of cheesecakes, but we had to get the most purchased one and that is this cheese souffle It uses abandoned French cheese as its ingredient The aroma of cheese is mouth-watering The souffle itself is very moist and airy The rich flavor of the cheese instantly spreads once you take a bite It feels so light that I could have this more Let's wrap up and move to the next area Now on to checking out three stores near Daimon Station Daimon Station is in the 10-minute walking distance from the Tokyo Tower One of the highlight tourist spots around the area is definitely Dojoji This historical Buddhist temple was built in 1393 To start off the tour in Daimon area the first store to introduce is this store right here It's Kobe-gyu Daiya Shiba Daimon store The store just started last year and serves Kobe beef Inside has very luxury vibes with counter seats. You can watch in front of you how the food are being prepared Let's try Kobe beef sushi to start off On top of softly grilled beef sweet sauce is poured over Lean meat has moderate chewiness and the flavor of the meat itself is very powerful Marbled meat melts in your mouth This surely are fancy sushi that enables you to really explore sweetness from the beef The must-have at the store is a beef bowl, which has two different Kobe beef on rice It's ordered frequently for its reasonable price though. It has brown beef on top Beef that has been simmered with soy sauce and sugar. It's sweet and melty The sauce is really soaking into rice and I love it Lightly grilled beef is moist and I could eat this without any bite Let's take a bite of rice with egg yolk coating By adding the egg the meat is creamier and this sure is a rice thief What an amazing beef bowl Now on to showing you Gindako Haibou Sakaba This is an izakaya restaurant run by Japan's number one takoyaki chain store Gindako Here you get to satisfy freshly prepared takoyaki craving with drinks We'll show you a menu that can only be ordered in limited stores And it's this sauce yakisoba noodles It's served piping hot Since the kitchen prepares once they receive an order The smell of dried seaweed laver Surround the air It cooks with simple ingredients like bean sprouts cabbage and pork slices Each of the ingredients are cut in large pieces. So the volume is subtle Noodles are looking thick This chewy texture is very addictive The sauce is rich yet with fruity touch Highly recommend you to try with red pickled ginger, too The ginger adds the fresh crunchy texture and it tastes even better Where we are headed next is called Naruto Taiyaki Honpo Taiyaki a fish-shaped dessert is the store's specialty with over 50 other stores around Japan Each taiyaki is prepared neatly using the fish mold There are three flavors to choose from and I picked out this one for today The flour made out of this store's taiyaki is very thin So you really get to enjoy the crispiness It comes with sweet potato cream filling packed inside. I love this natural sweetness of the sweet potato You see red sweet bean paste and custard cream as regular fillings But you don't really find the sweet potato. So I highly advise you should try Now to heading over to Tokyo Tower It'll be a nice 10-minute stroll through the Dojoji temple and here we are. This is Tokyo Tower this 1958 built broadcasting tower has a height of 1092 feet The area above the observatory is made out of military tents which were used in real battles Just a quick note that it'll cost you extra to be up in the observatory You get to take a panorama view of Tokyo from the observatory Night is the best time for checking out the tower It lights up in warm orange color and the view is magnificent Then let's go inside the tower The third floor building underneath the tower has numerous shops There are limited goods that can only be purchased here The shops handle good lineups of souvenirs that represent Tokyo too. So you really can't go wrong here For today, we selected two tower limited goods. The first one being this snack It comes in this cute box with illustration of the tower It has cookies inside The cookies have the tower imprinted on the top and it's very adorable It tastes sweet with egg and butter It comes with chocolate filling inside Hazelnuts are also included for its nutty mouthfeel And the other one is this dessert with another tower picture imprint It comes with four pieces of Castella sponge cakes The surface of the cakes have words and icons of the tower branded which are very sweet From the airy dough of the cake, you can really taste the sweetness of egg and milk It comes with custard cream filling. It tastes sweet and puts me in a good mood And why don't we check out some of the restaurants inside the tower The one very near to the entrance is Marion Crepe It's a crepe stand very well-known in Japan The head stand of the Marion Crepe is located in one of the busiest tourist spots of Tokyo Takeshita Dori Street in Harajuku It's a nice encounter to have the crepe from one of the most famous crepe stands in Japan Mother Bokujo Cafe stands in third floor This is a cafe run by a farm in Chiba Prefecture, a neighbor of Tokyo You get to try various flavors of ice cream in here and we are getting the number one seller ice cream It's a simple milk flavored ice cream The main ingredient is of course the fresh milk from the farm in Chiba The flavor of the milk is so subtle It's refreshing but with sweetness too. You really get the taste of what truly milk tastes like The last one we are going to unveil is at the second floor food court You find five stores within this food court We'd like to check Moss Burger for today Here we had a burger that can only be eaten at this store To those of you who are not familiar with Moss Burger It's a Japan oriented burger chain with more than 1,200 stores around the country The price is relatively higher than that of McDonald's but many adores their authentic burgers Now, let's try their limited burger A burger was made with the height of the tower in mind It comes with two layers of patties and the fillings are so rich On top of the patty is flowing meat sauce with slight chili kick. That spiciness is on point I love the crispiness you get from the onion ring, too It's so juicy with pastrami bacon slices Do give it a shot when you come to visit the tower If there's a restaurant you'd like me to introduce, let me know in the comments Please like and subscribe to my channel, too. Well, that's it for today. See you in the next video