Department Store Specialty Vendors
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Department Store Food Floor -- Specialty Vendors

You'll find everything from Belgian chocolates and $500-a-pound Japanese beef to bagels and take-out curries. The scene here is the food floor at Seibu Department Store in Ikebukuro, one of the largest of its kind in Tokyo. It's actually two underground floors, stretching several city blocks and jam-packed with tiny food stalls, each with its own specialty and each independently operated.

Photos:
1-2) Kyoto-style kamaboko (fish cakes) and fu (wheat gluten cakes for miso-shiro soup).
3-4) Assorted fish cakes.
5) Sato-imo (small sweetish potatoes). 6) The bean department.
7) Sake. 8) Spices.

Copyright (c) Robb Satterwhite.

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