TV Tokyo's popular information variety show "Appear! Ad Town Heaven" (Saturday 9pm) will feature Kodenmacho, Nihonbashi (Chuo Ward, Tokyo) on its February 8th broadcast.
In the Edo period, there was a prison in Kodenmacho, Nihonbashi, where people who were arrested were held. Part of it is now a park. There is also a wholesale district in the area, famous for the "Bettara Market," which has been going on for 400 years, and the number of fashionable shops is increasing.
The program will introduce a selection of dishes, including the "no-sandwich" dorayaki that has been around since the Meiji era, a long-established eel restaurant, a chocolate cake passed down from a legend to his daughter, clam and stamina noodles, a "chin-busting" hard bagel, and strawberry cream puffs.
Other traditional items on display include "rebus" tenugui hand towels, which have words embedded within the pictures, and non-sweaty washi socks developed by a long-established washi paper company.
The guests are Yurika Mita, a former Fuji TV announcer who is now a freelance announcer, and the comedy duo Tosa Kyodai.
