Name: Tokyo's Kitchenware Town: Kappabashi Dori | Life in Japan Episode 150
Uploaded: 2022-08-09T17:35:17.000Z
Duration: 11 min 46 s

今日は調理器具のお店が集まる かっぱ橋道具街に来ています

It's a famous street full of houseware things — like kitchen stuff!

ファンの方に教えてもらいました！

過去形

So some of you recommended it and we are checking it out today!

小田急線は都心へのアクセスに優れています

今日は東京スカイツリーの近くにある 調理器具の問屋街を訪ねます

One of the great things about where we live is how easily we can get to Tokyo and its many wards via the Odakyu train line.

Today we're going to the far side of Tokyo, near Tokyo SkyTree,

お財布の紐が緩むかもしれません

We've heard about a street that sells anything and everything you need for the kitchen.

巨大なコップとシェフが見えます！

We haven't ever been there before, so I'm excited to see how Ruth will respond,

and a bit curious about how much she might spend.

That's cool! Look at all those cups on that building— the chef up there. They are ready for us.

収納があったら欲しいわ 鍋は大好き！

If I had more space, I would buy them because they're beautiful! And I love hot pot.

Oh my goodness, there's so many amazing things!

I don't need this stuff, but I want this stuff.

I wonder if you'll end up buying something and what you will buy.

- 触らないで - 鞄に気を付けて

- いいね！ - ランチプレートね

Don't touch. Don't touch, watch the bags!

This is all paper crafts for cakes and stuff.

- コーヒーショップで使えそう - そうね！

This is awesome stuff for the coffee shop, you know? I know!

ケーキやチョコの型が沢山揃っているわ

They have all the molds for making cakes and chocolates, and for packaging them for selling them.

They have all the plastic molds, which are amazing. That's cool.

ミニチーズケーキを作って デコレーションの上から蓋できる

And all the packaging, like all the paper-wrapping stuff and cup-cakey things.

I mean, look, I could make a mini-cheesecakes in this and put a swirl on top with a lemon and still fit a lid!

For your own little Yakiniku place. Oh man, Yakiniku and all kinds of awesome stuff!

お店毎にユニークな専門があります

The more stores we enter, the more we can see how each store has it's own speciality or niche.

お店毎に違った専門があります

Yes, you see lots of the same things thought the many stores,

but almost all the stores are centered around a theme or service.

Just when you thought you've seen it all, something unique comes along.

- クッキーカッターです - 次のクリスマスに使いたい！

Ruth found cookie-cutters. I want this one for next Christmas!

It cuts out, and you put it together like a puzzle!

But it was a cookie-cutter at a knife shop.

Ruth's like "we got to keep an eye on the time because it just might get away."

This is like "Washyoku" — for Japanese kind of dishes.

Look at all of this though, wow. But I want a bowl that matches this or this.

Wouldn't that be a pretty solid bowl? Yeah, that is pretty. Very cool.

- いいお椀じゃない？ - そうだね

It will go good with my white. It does white and blue.

The choice is yours — what do you get? Oh my goodness!

選択肢が沢山あります すごいです！

I wonder if these can go in the microwave?

What would I serve on this? Carrot sticks?

A beautiful bowl and plate, and Ruth has found her next purchase.

Well I got some beautiful bowls... How much did it run you?

Well one bowl and one tray... Oh yes, very nice.

Little did we know, we were about to discover one of Ruth's favorite stores.

次のお店は ルースが大好きな分野でした

Cake supplies, cake supplies! Oh my goodness, cake supplies.

I really want one of these, but I want a little bigger mold.

これが欲しいけど もう少し大きいといいわ

イースターバニーもある！ 少し落ち着かないと

They have the Easter Bunny. I'm going to wait, just wait. I'm not sure about that yet.

A pizza cutter, very important for the Reutter family.

ピザカッターとフロスティングバッグ シリコン製の型

I'm getting a pizza cutter, frosting bags and a silicone little ball mold.

There's a whole other side of the road that we haven't seen yet!

何時間でも過ごせるし 買いたい物がありすぎるわ！

Well I could spend hours upon hours And hundreds of dollars!

All the plastic food that they show in the windows!

You can bring yours in and have it made like it.

今日はルースが主役ですが 僕もいます！

That's right. Or you just find something like what you want to sell.

- 次にお母さんが来日したら来ようか？ - そうね！

I need to register my presence here, otherwise you won't know that I was actually with you.

- ジョアンはお椀が好きよね - そうだね

Joanne loves little bowls. My mom does love little bowls.

There's some beautiful bowls... Oh look at that one.

東京には かっぱ橋道具街のように 特定のテーマの専門店街がいくつかあります