TV Tokyo's popular information variety show "Appear! Ad Town Heaven" (Saturday 9pm) will feature the Takanawa and Gyoranzaka area in Tokyo's Minato Ward on May 10th.
Takanawa Gyoranzaka is an area centered around Sengaku-ji Temple, where the graveyard of the 47 Ronin (Ako Gishi), the former Ako clan's famous Chushingura, is located. With many slopes and stairs, it is also known as the "miracle downtown" that remains in Minato Ward in central Tokyo.
The program will feature the beloved "Saba-chan" restaurant at a quaint, down-to-earth diner in Sakashita, the chicken simmered ramen at a bar frequented by former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the famous restaurant that pioneered hot, creamy baked curry bread, the bean daifuku that has been chosen as one of Tokyo's three best soy daifuku and always has to be ordered, and cakes that are difficult to reserve.
In addition to introducing "treasures" related to the Ako Gishi, the program will also feature a stroll through the tropical, extremely narrow alleys and staircases of the backstreets, a long-established dry cleaning business that receives requests from all over the country, and the fire watchtower of an active fire station famous for its curvaceous retro architecture.
