A snack street that runs for over a kilometer
Togoshi Ginza is a Tokyo shopping street with more than 400 shops along about 1.3 km, a few minutes from Gotanda Station on the Tokyu Ikegami Line. Walk it end to end and snack as you go on croquettes, pan-fried dumplings and rice-ball skewers sold over the counter to take away. Some small shops take cash only, so bring some.
One long street of over 400 small shops, from butchers and fishmongers to snack counters, that takes about 25 minutes to walk end to end without stopping. Its name borrows from Ginza, Tokyo's famous shopping district. In the late afternoon, cars are kept out for a few hours, which makes it easier to wander.
A fish-cake shop whose specialty is the oden croquette: pieces of oden, the simmered fish cakes and vegetables of a Japanese winter stew, wrapped in mashed potato and fried. You can also buy satsuma-age, fried fish cakes, by the piece.
A small Chinese restaurant that sells pan-fried xiaolongbao, soup-filled dumplings with a crisp bottom, to take away. The soup inside is very hot, so bite a small hole first.
A shop known for Obihiro-style buta-don, grilled pork over rice from Hokkaido. For eating on the street, it sells skewered rice balls wrapped in grilled pork.