Shopping Street · Kitasuna

Sunamachi Ginza Shopping Street 砂町銀座商店街

A 670-metre shotengai in deep Koto where Tokyo's home cooks shop for oden ingredients, croquettes and pickles, cheap, noisy and gloriously unchanged since the Showa era.

About

Sunamachi Ginza runs for around 670 metres through Kitasuna, a residential district far from any major sight, with about 180 shops packed shoulder to shoulder. It is famous across Tokyo as an osozai (ready-made side dish) street: stalls sell oden ingredients by the piece, fried chicken, croquettes, grilled fish, rice crackers, pickles and tamagoyaki, and the area's grandmothers queue with their shopping trolleys every afternoon. There is no arcade roof and no tourist signage, just hand-written price boards and shopkeepers calling out deals. Snacking your way from one end to the other for a few hundred yen is a classic local afternoon.

Highlights

• About 180 shops along 670 metres, mostly family businesses
• Oden ingredients, croquettes and fried chicken sold by the piece
• Hand-written price boards and old-school calling-out of bargains
• No tourist crowds, it is a working neighbourhood street

Tips

• Come between 15:00 and 17:00 when everything is freshly fried for dinner shoppers.
• Bring coins; many stalls are cash-only.
• There is no station on the street, take the Toei bus from Kameido or Monzen-nakacho, or walk 15–20 minutes from Nishi-Ojima.
• Most shops close by about 19:00 and some on Sundays.

Open in Google Maps · Info checked 2026-10-09

Nearby

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• Yokojukkengawa Shinsui ParkPark · 1.1 km away
• Sarue Onshi ParkPark · 1.7 km away
• Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT)Museum · 2.0 km away
• Kiba ParkPark · 2.0 km away
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