All Japan Food Festival – Shibuya
If you are in Tokyo today you really should treat yourself to the gourmet event of the spring, the All Japan Food Festival held right between Harajuku and Shibuya station outside and at the NHK Broadcasting Center (if you travel by the Yamanote line you’d be closest from Harajuku station) from 10 to 16. I went and got to try a lot of great food and drinks from all over the country. It was absolutely not the best place and time to do photography as I bought bags of stuff and spent most of my time with food in my hands but I did manage to get a few shots! Here’s the captions:
1. A yuzu juice drink from Tochigi prefecture, named appropriately Yuzuppe, after the local dialect’s habit of ending sentences with the word …dappe! 2. Delicious chicken clubs from Shimane prefecture. 3. Fizzy Pear soft drink from Tottori prefecture. 4. Garlic rayu (a kind of seasoning pefect for your plain white rice) and melon juice cans from Shiga prefecture. 5. The super cute Shiga melon character Ouminchi! 6. & 7. Daidai (bitter orange) cider and daidai/wasabi dressing. 8. Some very interesting and very rare actually made in Tokyo Japanese sake! 9. One of the cute Hokkaido berry girls! 10. 100% Saga prefecture Mikan juice. 11. The straw God from Kagoshima prefecture remade in Tokyo.
Do you know the story behind the straw god? It looks like a cross between a scarecrow and a medieval Gundam.
Blime ! Medieval Gandam —- are you sure ?
I thought, it was Nama-hage, but gotten fat in Kagoshima.
I wish I knew but I do not. I have to check it up! (^-^;)
Strangely, all of your photos (other post as well) having very few people in the picture.
Was that because, it was attended by few people or your choice ?
I’ve been worried, the decline of population is such bad ?
Otherwise well covered good report.
Haha… no, there’s plenty of people in Tokyo, increasing actually! It is just that rather than taking photos of a lot of people’s backs I usually wait until I get a reasonably clear scene… (^-^;)
That fizzy pear drink sounds good!!!! I may try to recreate it, minus the cute japanese packaging of course.
Let us know the results! I think it should taste similar to a non alcoholic pear cider!
I’m so envious…I want to try all those delicious food and drink (o_o)
How are the prices? Do they count as expensive there?
Very reasonable prices, maybe a little bit over super market prices but then it is all made in Japan! (^-^)
Oh my.. I wish I was in Tokyo today >.<
You should have been! (^-^)