Best Shopping around Asakusa Spot List

Japanese Pottery Shop Dengama is a Japanese pottery speciality store which directly purchases the product from the potteries all over Japan such as Arita, Kutani, Mashiko and Mino. They handle a wide range of products focused on bowls with made with traditional Japanese pottery techniques and pictures, along with fine articles from famous potteries, and products for ordinary daily use as mugs, tea cups and small plates. Don't forget to check the bargains near the entrance of the shop.

Colorful plastic samples are displayed at Ganso Shokuhin Sample-ya. On the second floor of the Kappabashi Showroom, you can experience making food replicas using wax. Based on a program designed by artisans, the staff will teach you the traditional techniques. You will make two kinds of plastic tempura and a head of lettuce in approximately one hour. A reservation by phone is required. Please note that the instruction is available only in Japanese.

Kamaasa is a cooking equipment store founded in 1908. Inside the store, various utensils are lined up, starting from kitchen knifes and Nambu ironware, other professional tools like pots , the Yukihira Pot (a pouring pot), frying pans, bamboo draing baskets, graters, but also ordinary daily house utensils. There is a wide variety of carefully selected beautifully designed products with great quality which will fit in your hand better the more you use it. We recommend you to come and try to hold the products for yourself and make a choice based on that.