A street of gooey pancakes you grill yourself
Monja is a runny batter with cabbage and other fillings, cooked on a griddle set into your table: make a ring of the fillings, pour the batter into the middle, and eat it straight off the hot plate with a tiny spatula. It began as a children's snack at old candy shops, and today dozens of monja restaurants line the main street here.
Opened in 1950, one of the oldest monja restaurants on the street. Eat monja the traditional way here: build a ring of fillings, pour the batter in the middle, and scrape it off the griddle with a tiny spatula.
The shopping street known as Monja Street, with monja restaurants on both sides. One street back, narrow alleys of old row houses remain. Many restaurants open in the late afternoon.
A tsukudani shop founded in 1837. Tsukudani, small fish and seaweed simmered in soy sauce and sugar, is said to have begun as the preserved food of this island's fishermen, and here it is sold by weight.
The shrine of the fishermen from Tsukuda village near Osaka who built this island in the 1640s, founded for the god of their home village. Something of the old fishing village lingers in its grounds.