Shopping Street · Okachimachi / Akihabara
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A white-arched row of craft workshops built into the space under the JR tracks between Akihabara and Okachimachi, leather, glass, jewellery and Edo crafts made on site, with trains rumbling overhead.
About
The odd name is a railway measurement: this stretch of viaduct sits 2 km 540 m from Tokyo Station. In 2010 JR turned the dim space beneath the Yamanote tracks into a clean, gallery-like arcade of around 50 small shops, most of them makers who design and produce on the premises. You can watch a leather craftsman stitching wallets, buy hand-blown glass, indigo-dyed goods, wooden spoons, enamel pins or Edo-kiriko-inspired jewellery, and order personalised pieces. Because it is in the gap between Akihabara's electronics and Ueno's Ameyoko it gets almost no tour traffic, and on a weekday you can have long chats with the makers. The adjoining CHABARA food market under the tracks toward Akihabara sells regional Japanese pantry goods.
Highlights
- Around 50 artisan studios and shops under the Yamanote Line viaduct
- Watch makers at work, leather, glass, ceramics, jewellery and textiles
- Clean white arcade design that contrasts with the trains passing overhead
- Good for one-off souvenirs that are not mass-produced
- Name comes from its distance (2 km 540 m) from Tokyo Station
Tips
- Closed Wednesdays, plan around it.
- From Okachimachi Station walk south along the tracks (about 5 min); from Akihabara it is about 8 min north.
- Several shops take custom orders (engraving, sizing) the same day, ask early in your visit.
- Continue under the tracks toward Akihabara to CHABARA for regional food souvenirs.
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