TV Tokyo's popular information variety show "Appear! Ad Street Heaven" (Saturdays at 9 PM) will feature the top 10 "Tokyo's Delicious Long-established Restaurants and Specialties" that have been around since the Edo period.
Japan is the world's leading "long-lived corporate powerhouse" with the most companies that have been in business for over 200 years. Tokyo is home to many long-established restaurants that have overcome numerous challenges. The program, titled "Delicious! The City of Edo," will feature the specialties and food culture of long-established restaurants founded in the Edo period.
The places featured are Komagata: Bando Taro Unaju, popularized by Hiraga Gennai!? and Edokko's staple, Dozeu (loach) hotpot with burdock and green onions; Ningyocho: A long-established restaurant specializing in oyakodon and shamo nabe, and a sweet shop that survived air raids and serves anmitsu mame and oshiruko; Azabu-Juban: Sarashina soba, a remnant of the temple town, and bean sweets that were founded in the wake of the Sakuradamon Incident.
In addition, we will introduce Ueno, a famous cherry blossom spot with Kan'ei-ji Temple and Shinobazu Pond, a long-established shop selling fukujinzuke and nori tsukudani, and a famous soft-shelled turtle restaurant; Nihonbashi, the starting point of the Five Highways and a fish market from the Edo period, hanpen, umeboshi candy, kintsuba, and bento boxes.
