A Koreatown of cheese corn dogs and kimchi
Shin-Okubo, one stop from Shinjuku on the JR Yamanote Line, has gathered Korean restaurants since the 1980s, and today both sides of its main street are lined with Korean street food stands and grocers. Try a cheese corn dog and tteokbokki, chewy rice cakes in a sweet and spicy red sauce, then look for snacks to take home at a Korean supermarket. Weekends get very crowded, so a weekday afternoon is more relaxed.
A food hall where small stalls selling Korean street food share one roof and a set of tables. Buy a little from several stalls and try the dishes side by side, much like at a night market in Seoul. Each stall takes its own payment, so pay as you order at each one.
A Korean supermarket whose aisles are stacked with many kinds of kimchi, sheets of seasoned seaweed, cold noodles and Korean sweets. It makes a good last stop to pick up ingredients for Korean cooking, or light snacks to bring home as gifts.
A small Inari shrine, honoring the Shinto god of rice and good fortune, a short walk from the busy streets of Shin-Okubo. Its name means every shot hits, from a legend that gunners of the shogun's guard prayed here and then hit every target. People now come to pray for luck in exams, contests and anything they want to win.