Visit Sumida, Take A Walk And Enjoy Eating

Local Cuisine and Places, recommended by foreigners living in Tokyo!

Stores with this mark have an English menu available. You can also find over 100 restaurants and shops in the［ Oishii Sumida Tokyo］website. Tenzaru Take this guide along with you Noodles with Served in a Basket as you freely explore Sumida. 天ざる New discoveries and encounters are waiting for you here!

Located in the eastern part of the Tokyo metropolis, Sumida has been known as a town of craftsmanship since long ago. With lines of houses, I love Tenzaru! Edd from Thailand small workshops, and narrow streets to explore, you can see the real You can enjoy two types of here. at one! You can take a break from all that Soba is Japanese fast food. There is warm and cold soba, and zaru soba is walking at one of the many shops, one of the cold versions. Fresh restaurants, and cafes that the locals tempura is so crispy. This combination is unbeatable! Try to slurp the soba love. A unique part of the Japanese just as the locals do. The taste and aroma will fill your mouth! working-class culture, sento, or public bathhouse is also introduced here for Our featured restaurant 小梅のやぶそば ● Koume no Yabusoba you to try. Individuals from eleven HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶Noodles Address 3-45-15 Mukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo countries living in Tokyo will Open 11:00am-3:00pm, 5:00pm-8:00pm (L.O. 7:30pm) introduce their favorite dishes and Closed Sundays spots to you! They’ll even give you hints on how to eat and enjoy the How to Eat zaru soba Zaru soba is the standard for soba dishes. The dipping sauce food like the locals do! You’ll see (tsuyu) is served separately, so many people don’t know what to that there is so much to discover do with it. It’s easy and delicious, so don’t be afraid to try! about Tokyo here, in Sumida!

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The dipping sauce Take some soba with After you’ve finished We will introduce comes with your chopsticks and your soba, mix condiments such as dip them into the soba-yu (the water our favorite dishes and green sauce. that the soba was onion. Please put boiled in) with the and spots to you! them into the sauce dipping sauce and and mix the wasabi in try drinking it! well.

Recommended Sightseeing Spot TOKYO SKYTREE in Sumida ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Mainly used as a radio and broadcast tower, at 634m, TOKYO SKYTREE is a symbol of pride and accomplishment. Check out the day Edd Jose‘ Zaya Long Quan Una Alfred and night views of Tokyo which spread out in front of you from the observation deck! There are also many restaurants and shops to enjoy.

Access TOKYO SKYTREE Station on the Tobu Skytree Line and Oshiage Staion on the Tokyo Metro Yoshua Suzette Aida Maurizio Jayun Aufa Hanzomon Line

3 Chanko Chanko Hotpot ラーメン ちゃんこ鍋

The soup is incredible! Ramen is delicious! Zaya from Mongolia José from Mexico This food contains the secret Once you try , of sumo wrestlers’ strength! you’ll keep wanting more! The food that sumo wrestlers eat at There are many kinds of ramen in their stables is called “chanko.” But Japan - , salt, , seafood when we usually think of it, hot-pot and tonkotsu (pork bone). The comes to our minds. Full of nutrition, noodles also come in different we can feel a togetherness when we thicknesses. But each shop has their eat from the same pot, so this dish own taste and texture to help them coming from the roots of sumo stand out. Recently, “tsukemen” or creates an ideal meal! dipping-style noodles which have the soup and noodles separate, are also popular. Our featured restaurant ちゃんこ巴潟 ● CHANKO TOMOEGATA Our featured restaurant HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶JAPANESE RESTAURANTS & BARS Address 双麺 ● Somen 2-17-6 Ryogoku, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Open 11:30am-14:00pm, 5:00pm ～ 10:00pm HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶Noodles Closed Mondays from June to August, New Year’s Holidays Address 1-4-10 Kinshi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Open 11:00am-4:00pm, 5:00pm ～ 12:00pm (L.O.11:30pm) Closed No Holidays How to eat “Nabe” hot-pot Ingredients and cooking methods can vary between restaurants, but How to use the ticket vending machines it is always cooked in front of you, hot and ready to eat. You usually Recently, many shops use ticket vending machines. Some of them serve yourself - you take from the pot and eat from your own plate. even have the pictures of the food on them, so it’s easy to know what you are ordering. You can easily add toppings and more noodles to your order. If you need any help, the staff will surely help you!

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If the restaurant lets The foam that floats noodles or rice 1 2 3 you prepare the meal up should be taken can be added to the yourself, put the out. After everything leftover soup to soak Insert the money into Press the button of Be careful - water is ingredients into the is cooked well, take up the great flavor the machine. It takes the food that you often self-service in pot that take the some of the food and make a great coins and bills. want to eat. Don’t noodle shops. most time to cook and put it on your final dish! forget to get your first. At Tomoegata, dish, and enjoy! change! they will prepare everything for you.

Recommended Recommended Sightseeing Spot Sumida River Sightseeing Spot Kokugikan & Sumo Museum in Sumida ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● in Sumida ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● The Sumida River is a famous spot to see Japan’s national sport, sumo, takes place here cherry blossoms. There is a cherry blossom in January, May and September. There is also festival there each spring. There is also a a Sumo Museum here, where collections of fireworks festival held in July. data relating to sumo are displayed.

1-3-28,Address Yokoami, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Free（SumoAdmission fee Museum） 10:00am-4:00pmOpen Saturdays,Closed Sundays and National Holidays

4 5 Izakaya Savory Japanese-style Bars お好み焼き 居酒屋

Taste and feel the seasons It’s Delicious and fun ! from the daily specials! Long Quan from China Una from Slovenia

You can change the seasonings It’s always fun to talk and ingredients any way you want! with the owners and staff! Okonomiyaki, or Japanese savory Izakaya are restaurants or pubs pancakes are made by mixing flour where adults can stop by on their with water or stock, adding cabbage, way home from work to have some meat, and other ingredients and drinks and food. Small izakaya take cooking it on a grill. Cooking it effort to serve food that compliments yourself is the popular way in Tokyo, the time and season. With a variety of but some of these places will prepare traditional dishes to choose and at a it for you. Either way, you can eat it price that won’t hurt your budget, hot and right off the grill! you can never go wrong with izakaya!

Our featured restaurant Our featured restaurant お好み焼き わか ● Okonomiyaki WAKA みきや ● MIKIYA HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶JAPANESE RESTAURANTS & BARS HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶JAPANESE RESTAURANTS & BARS Address 3-33-9 Oshiage, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Address 3-9-1 Ryogoku, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Open 5:00pm-11:00pm Open 5:00pm - 10:00pm Closed Wednesdays Closed Sundays

How to make Okonomiyaki How to order at an izakaya Don’t worry if it’s your first time - the staff at the shop will prepare Drinks are usually ordered first. You will be given a small appetizer the grill and gladly help you make your first okonimiyaki! After that, called an Otoshi(some izakaya may not have one). There is usually a try to do it on your own for a unique experience! That’s the best small additional charge for this Otoshi. It is unique for each way to enjoy! restaurant, so please try it!

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Mix the flour and Make it into a circle After it has been Ordering from the The grilled fish The food usually ingredients well. and when one side cooked well, add standard menu is a changes depending comes in individual Lightly spread the oil has been cooked sauce, “” good place to start. on the season. This is sizes, so you can try on the grill and lay well, flip it over and (fish flakes), The daily specials are one way you can feel many kinds of dishes out the mixed wait. , in any usually written on Japan’s such as fried foods, ingredients on the way you want. Now some sign or board. consideration to the grilled fish and grill. you’re ready to eat! seasons. ! Let’s experience Recommended Japanese culture MERIKOTI Sightseeing Spot Edo Tokyo Museum at workshops! ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● in Sumida ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● We specialize in selling indoor zouri (Japanese-style Information about Edo Tokyo’s 400-year slippers) made with specialty thread, toe socks and history is displayed. You can go back to the tabi socks. We also hold workshops where you can by crossing the life-sized make your own indoor zouri. We are close to The Nihonbashi Bridge inside the museum. Sumida Hokusai Museum. 1-4-1Address Yokoami, Sumida-ku, Tokyo ¥600Admission fee OishiiHP Sumida Tokyo▶SHOPS 9:30am-5:00pmOpen （Saturday:9:30am-7:00pm) 1-12-10Address Kamezawa, Sumida-ku, Tokyo MondayClosed (if the Monday is a National Holiday, 10:00am-6:00pmOpen we are closed the following Tuesday) IrregularClosed Holidays New Year’s Holidays

6 7 Sento Public bath 銭湯

You can relax in the large bath and feel your fatigue melt away! Alfred from America

A bottle of coffee-flavored milk Sento manners and is the best way to cool down ! how to enter the baths In the bathing area, you must take off all your clothes. Swimwear is Sento, or public bathhouses from not allowed. There are a variety of baths such as medicinal baths long ago were built with shrine-like and jacuzzi jets. It is Japanese custom to soak your body up to your architecture, and their smokestacks shoulders. If you’re not used to hot baths, be careful not to stay in could be seen from far away, but the bath for too long, as you may overheat and get dizzy! recently sento have been built into the ground floors of buildings and apartments. Painted murals of Mount Fuji in the bathing area are another unique point. If you’re feeling tired after a long day of walking and exploring, I recommend you to take a relaxing bath at a sento. Sumida also has sento with natrual hot-spring water! 1 2 3

Please take off your In Tokyo, the sento If you don’t have a Our featured sento shoes before fee is 460yen. Please towel with you, you 薬師湯 ● Yakushi-yu entering, and put pay in cash (some can rent or borrow HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶SHOPS them in the shoe box. sento have ticket one. Most sento (in Address 3-46-10 Mukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Don’t forget the key! vending machines). Sumida) have bottles Open 3:30pm-2:00am of soap and Closed Wednesdays shampoo in the bathing area, free to Our featured sento use. 押上温泉 大黒湯 ● Oshiage onsen Daikoku-yu HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶SHOPS Address 3-12-14 Yokokawa, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Open Weekdays 3:00pm-12:00am Saturdays 2:00pm-12:00am Sundays and National holidays 1:00pm-12:00am Closed Mondays (If the Monday is a national holiday, we are closed the next day) 4 5 6 Our featured sento 御谷湯 ● Mikoku-yu Before you enter the Enjoy your time in Please dry yourself HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶SHOPS bath, wash your body the bath - gaze at the off completely before Address 3-30-8 Ishiwara, Sumida-ku, Tokyo thoroughly. Please wonderful painted you go back to the Open 3:30pm-2:00am (Last Entry 1:30am) don’t put your towel mural, talk with the changing area. Closed Mondays (If the Monday is a national holiday, we in the bath. locals, soak in the are closed the next day) atmosphere!

Recommended Recommended Sightseeing Spot Ushijima Shrine Sightseeing Spot Mukojima Geisha in Sumida ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● in Sumida ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Close to TOKYO SKYTREE, this shrine has a There are geisha (traditional Japanese female long history. “Nade-ushi,” is a bronze figure of entertainers) in traditional Japanese a cow. You rub the part of the cow that restaurants in Mukojima. If you want to be matches with the part of your body that may entertained by the geisha, you need to make a ail you (for example, if you have a bad knee, reservation. When you walk around Mukojima, you should rub the knee(s) of the cow) and it you may encounter a geisha. is believed you will be healed.

1-4-5,Address Mukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo

8 9 Anmitsu Jelly with Syrup, Sweet Bean Paste, and Other Topping Ingredients Grilled Chicken あんみつ 焼き鳥

This can 0nly be eaten here, Yakitori is delicious! Suzette from Philippines from Uganda I’ll take some home in Japan! Yoshua for my family. Aida from Philippines Beautiful colors, and a sweetness you can only experience in Japan With various dishes lined up, are traditional sweets that it’s fun to walk around and eat! have been made in Japan since long You can find vegetables, meat, fish, ago. These sweets have differences shops, bakeries and much more depending on the season and place. along shopping streets. You can take This “anmitsu” is covered with a some food to your hotel. Yakitori, or brown sugar syrup. Some shops sell grilled chicken on sticks is loved by sweets that you can take back to everyone. You can eat it there or take enjoy at your hotel. it back to eat later.

Our featured shop Our featured shop あんみつの深緑堂 ● ANMITSUNO SHINRYOKUDO 鳥正 京島店 ● Torisho kyojima-ten HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶CAFÉS Address 5-27-17 Mukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Address 3-21-7, Kyojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Open 11:00am - 6:00pm (L.O. 5:00pm) Open 10:00am ‒ 8:00pm Closed Mondays, Thursdays Closed Sundays

So many Japanese sweets to try! Shopping Streets The main ingredients in Japanese sweets are grains such as rice, With rows of small, individually owned stores, you can meet and talk beans such as azuki red beans, and sugar. Beans are usually made with the locals while experiencing the daily life here as you shop and into a jam and are vital to Japanese sweets. If you are unsure which walk around. There are many handmade and sweets which to buy, it’s okay to just buy one at a time to try. you can only buy at these shops.

Tokoroten

Tokoroten is made There are many Taiyaki are grilled from and kinds of dango, or cakes in the shape of eaten with soy sauce rice dumplings, such a fish. There are Price tags are on the You can get street There are many and vinegar. Very as grilled or topped different fillings such items, so there is no food to eat right shopping streets light and refreshing! with red bean (azuki) as and need to worry if you away. Don’t forget to such as “Kira-Kira jam. chocolate, but the don’t know throw your garbage Tachibana” so please ●Wagashi Dokoro standard filling is red Japanese. Body away in the proper explore and you may Nagashima：Oishii bean (azuki) jam. language and place. find some wonderful Sumida Tokyo ▶SHOPS ●TAIYAKI Kouchan!： gestures are OK! items to buy! Oishii Sumida Tokyo ▶ SHOPS Let’s experience Recommended Japanese culture Tsukada Kobo Sightseeing Spot Mukojima Hyakkaen at workshops! ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● in Sumida ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● We are an Edo Kimekomi Doll workshop and shop This garden was planted during the Edo that was founded in 1841. There is also a small Period. You can see Japanese plants such as museum in our workshop, and you can try various Japanese clover and zebra grass here. This workshops as well. Please make a reservation for garden was designed to have different flowers the museum and the workshops. in bloom each season.

OishiiHP Sumida Tokyo▶SHOPS 3-18-3,Address Higashimukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 2-11-7Address Mukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo ¥150Admission fee 10:00amOpen - 5:00pm 9:00am-4:30pmOpen SundaysClosed and Holidays NewClosed Year’s Holidays

10 11 Yoshoku Cake and Coffee Western-style Food 洋食 ケーキと珈琲

A beloved recipe 100 years in the making! This cheesecake is Maurizio from Italy even popular in Taiwan! Jayun from Taiwan They make their own mayonnaise! This is a restaurant everyone adores Take a break Western cuisine entered Japan from a long day at a cafe! around the end of the Edo period to Cafes here are full of personality! In the Meiji period, but Japan altered it addition to delicious coffee and tea, to match with Japanese tastes, to go the interior design of many cafes will well with rice. Restaurant Hatoya has amaze you. Old houses are been loved by the locals and has transformed and remodeled into cozy been in business serving customers cafes. Some also sell accessories, for over 100 years and four books, and other items. You can’t go generations. wrong with any cafe here!

Our featured restaurant Our featured cafe レストラン鳩家 ● Restaurant Hatoya 東向島珈琲店 ● Higashi Mukojima Coffee Shop HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶CASUAL DINING HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶CAFÉS Address 3-37-7 Higashi Mukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Address 1-34-7 Higashimukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Open 11:30am-2:00pm, 5:00pm-9:00pm Open 8:30am-8:00pm (L.O. 7:30pm) Closed Tuesdays Closed Wednesdays

Try Japan’s take on Western cuisine! Let’s go to a cafe! Western food is now a big part of Japan’s culture. It shows up in There are cafes where you can have light meals. If you really enjoy home cooking and school meals, and is loved by kids. the coffee you’re having, you can also buy the beans at the store. Each cafe has handmade cakes that go well with their coffee.

Omu-rice Napolitan Hamburg steak

“Omu-rice” is chicken “Spaghetti Napolitan” “Japanese style” Muffins are made The coffee beans are These coffee beans and rice flavored with can usually be found sauce is made with daily and usually sell roasted in-house, are also ordered by ketchup is wrapped on lunch menus at soy sauce and is out. and the bagels and many people in a fluffy omelet. It is cafes. It is said to be often used on ●KATORIYA Flour and cakes they serve are overseas. The owners a standard dish in unique to Japan. Hamburg steaks. General Goods：Oishii hand-made. But of do their best to make Western cuisine here. ●Kitchen KAMEYA ●Steakhouse Mr. Sumida Tokyo ▶CAFÉS course, people cakes to match with ●Coffee-en：Oishii youshokukan：Oishii Danger (Kinshicho always come for the the coffee. Sumida Tokyo ▶ Sumida Tokyo ▶ Branch)：Oishii Sumida coffee. ●Shigeno Coffee CASUAL DINING Tokyo ▶CASUAL CASUAL DINING ●Café Sucré：Oishii Koubou：Oishii Sumida DINING Sumida Tokyo ▶CAFÉS Tokyo ▶CAFÉS

Let’s experience Recommended Japanese culture Daimatsu Senkoujo Sightseeing Spot The Sumida Hokusai Art Museum at workshops! ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● in Sumida ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● This is a workshop that has been working on dying The Sumida Hokusai Art Museum is in his and creating fine cotton prints. They sell their birthplace, Sumida Ward. This museum has goods directly and you can also try the dying been bustling with visitors since it opened in process yourself. November 2016.

2-7-2,Address Kamezawa, Sumida-ku, Tokyo PermanentAdmission fee exhibition ￥400 OishiiHP Sumida Tokyo▶SHOPS 9:30amOpen - 5:30pm 2-27-10Address Yahiro, Sumida-ku, Tokyo NewClosed Year’s Holidays, Mondays (if the 1:00pmOpen - 5:00pm Monday is a National Holiday, Saturdays,Closed Sundays and National Holidays we are closed the following Tuesday)

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I want to take my friends and family here! Aufa from Indonesia Even as a Muslim, I can eat here safely and comfortably! Even for those with food allergies and diet restrictions for religious reasons, there are various stores where you can enjoy a great meal with no worries. The number of stores with menus catered for Muslims and vegetarians/vegans has been increasing recently. Each restaurant chooses their ingredients specially to make sure everyone, even those with diet restrictions, can look forward to great and delicious meals.

Our featured restaurant スミダリバーキッチン ● Sumida River Kitchen This restaurant has its Halal HP Oishii Sumida Tokyo▶CASUAL DINING certification mark at the Address 1-15-4 Azumabashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo entrance. Their Thai vegetable Open 11:30am - 2:30pm, 5:30pm - 9:00pm(L.O) curry is very popular. Closed Sundays, Mondays

Food anyone can enjoy! For those with or without special diet restrictions, everyone can enjoy eating here together. Sekai Cafe has a special prayer room, so even people who are Muslim can enjoy strolling around the town.

The concept that Vegan cafes whose You can also enjoy people from countries dishes do not include organic, macrobiotic, around the world can animals and animal and vegan dishes gather and enjoy time by-products, have and sweets. together (prayer take-out options. ●Natural food cafe space available). ●SASAYA CAFE SPICA：Oishii Sumida ●SEKAI CAFE Oshiage：Oishii ：Oishii Sumida Tokyo ▶ Tokyo ▶CAFÉS Sumida Tokyo ▶CAFÉS CAFÉS

Let’s experience Japanese culture Small Museum of Books About Glass at workshops! ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● We have a wide selection of souvenirs as well. You can freely read 850 books about glass here. You can also take part in a glass engraving workshop (a reservation is required).

OishiiHP Sumida Tokyo▶SHOPS 1-19-8Address Azumabashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Wednesday-SundayOpen 10:00am-7:00pm Tuesdays, National Holidays 11:00am-6:00pm Closed Mondays (if the Monday is a National Holiday, we are closed the following Tuesday)

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「在住外国人がおすすめ！ 下町グルメ & スポット」 発行：墨田区産業観光部産業振興課 Information contained in this booklet is current as September 2017.