A Shopper’s Guide to Narita’s Historic Omotesando

A Shopper’s Guide to Narita’s Historic Omotesando

What’s up? Hi. Hi. We’re right now we’re at Narita Omoando. Specifically, right now we’re like at our favorite tea shop on this road. But um we come to the street in Narita. It’s the road leading down to the Narita Temple. Uh if you haven’t been here, I highly suggest making a stop here, especially if you’re flying out of Narita or you’re coming in from Narita. So Narita Temple is only one train station from the airport. So, if you’ve got a layover, this is an amazing place to stop by because the road leading to the temple, there’s a lot of historical buildings. Uh, a lot of shops that are super Japanese, like you won’t see, you know, touristy things. I mean, it’s touristy here, but the stores are generally like Japanese stores with a lot of like classic food, a lot of traditional stuff here. There’s a lot of artisans here, too, artisan shops. So, it’s a fantastic place to check out. Um, a lot of real Japanese uh stuff. We come here all the time. Every time we’re in Japan, we always stop by here because our parents don’t live that far from Narita, this area specifically. So, today we thought we’d just go down the street and show you some of our favorite shops. Right now, we’re at our favorite tea shop. We come here probably like every year, every time we’re in Japan, because it’s such a lovely little garden. It’s like a, you know, one of those Japanese gardens you see on TV or magazines. We just brought our parents here. They loved it. It’s not like a full meal you’ll have. It’s like a cafe, like have a little light snack and very traditional Japanese snacks, too. So, that’s what’s cool about this place. Yeah. And if you want real green tea, real matcha green tea, this is the place to do it. Yeah. So, yeah. So, we’re just going to go and explore a bit. [Music] So, yeah. So, this is like one of the artisan stores, but they have like really cute little baskets here that you can get spoons. These are all like handmade, handcrafted. You can even see him like making one of these baskets, too, which is super cool. Like, you can do like a little Mhm. kind of like these dark ones. That’s so nice. Bamboo. All bamboo. Bamboo. from there. Okay. Chopstick. Oh, okay. Chopstick. It’s so cute. We both got chopsticks for presents. This is so nice. It’s kuri. Yeah, this all made out of like um This one’s kuri. Kuri, but most of it in that shop is all made out of bamboo. It’s a bamboo shop. Yeah. And Candy got her bowl. Very nice. So cute. All right, next we’re going to go to this dongle shop. It’s called Yaki Dango. Candy really loves dangle and they make the best ones on this street. It’s rice but pounded rice. So, but yeah, this place has several different kinds. You can get miso, mitar, shi, showy, suduan, and koshian. So, that’s the different types. Sweet soy sauce, miso soy sauce and soy sauce and a smashed bean paste and smooth. Candy got you got the smooth. I got the uh question, which is a red bean paste. And there’s several different ones. There’s like miso paste, soy sauce paste, and there’s also a um red bean paste with like we It still has like some of the beans. It’s not like pureeed all the way, but I got the one that was more like smooth and pureeed. And and that’s the the rice part. And that’s it. [Music] Looks good. So, that was near the top. Um, and now we’re kind of making our way down downhill and checking out more of our favorite shops. Be careful and watch out for cars on this street because it is a pretty busy street and cars do go by very often. It’s a very narrow street. It’s one way, but it’s very narrow and people are always trying to go on the side. So, just be careful. Hey, so I just got a rice cracker. So they make them fresh here. So this is like a really good place to try out some rice crackers if you want. They have three flavors. They have soy sauce, miso, and oh, soy sauce, green onion, and miso. Sweet soy sauce is what they have. Is it good? M fresh. So, this is another one of our favorite stops. It’s the GMA shop, which is sesame seeds. Everything’s made out of sesame seeds here. We actually had ice cream here before. The black one right there. It’s so good. And then Koro is really great as well. And again, like, you know, you can watch them make it. A lot of the shops here, you can watch them freshly make their goods. Smells so good in here. I know. These are like fresh sesame seeds. They have spice curry. Wow. Sesame seed macaroons. Candy bought that. What is that? Pretty quick. Oh, but it’s Lu. Oh, Lu one. Nice. With sesame seeds. [Music] I got it. Cool. She put it on the side, too. Got my ice cream. Looks so good. So now we’re at kind of like at the middle of the street and you can get some tourist information here. As it says, it’s Narita Tourist Pavilion. Uh and what else? It’s like so they’re open from 9 to 5. Mhm. And also there’s a bathroom here too. So you know it’s you can’t really use the bathrooms in the shops unless if you eat there or buy something there. So, if you need to go to the bathroom, there’s one located right here. And they also have free Wi-Fi here. So, if you need to get online for whatever reason, um you can do that here. And then right across the street from the tourist building is the famous eel restaurant. Narita is well known for eel and they make fresh eel. They like cut it right in front of you. You can watch them. We’ve done it for years. come down the street and watch uh them make it fresh. I’m talking like, you know, they cut the fish, they pull it out of the water, they’re alive, they stake it, and they cut the fish in front of you, and they grill it. This building right here is super old. I think they said it’s over a hundred years. So, it’s very, very historic. And they still have a good rep. Everybody still comes here, locals, tourists. I If you ever see Narita’s mascot, that’s an eel. Yeah, it’s an eel and an airplane combined. Eel that looks like an airplane. It’s like I thought it was totally something else. I didn’t realize that was a eel. But this street you’ll find a ton of eel shops. Like I don’t know how many I’ve counted, but this is the one. Like this is the one to go to. Apparently, we don’t eat eel. Unfortunately, we don’t like eel. I love the smell of it. It’s got a really sweet smell. Um but that’s why we don’t go cuz we’re not big fans of eel. But it’s very famous in Marita. Yeah. And the tables in there look super cool, too. Like they have seating upstairs. I don’t know if you can see up there. The girls eating up there, but it’s like tatami style, I believe. Or it used to be. I’m not sure if it’s that way now. Uh but yeah, it’s a very very cool place to stop by if you like you. [Music] All right, this is my favorite place. It’s all matcha. It has rice cracker on the bottom. M maybe Oh, these look so good. Maybe I’ll try that. That’s new. The parfait. Damn, that’s not Never mind. That’s too big. It’s like 1,000 yen. Um, I don’t know if I want to spend that much. Yeah, this one is definitely the cheapest. But yeah, if you’re looking for some matcha goodies, sweets, this is the place to go. You can even get instant matcha. Mhm. [Music] Got my the darkest green tea ice cream. It’s kind of like bent. There it is. It’s so good. This much ice cream. I could eat another one. It’s so good. It’s like I want one, but I can’t eat all of it cuz I’m kind of full from the dongle. All right. So, we’re at the end of the road where the temple is. Uh, so that’s pretty much like all of our favorite shops. Um, the top spots that we usually hit down the road, but there’s like many other stores you can check out. Lots of souvenir shops. So, if you’re looking for like gifts, this is probably like a good road to go on, too. Yeah. I would suggest like look at everything before like while you’re going down, check out the temple, which we have a video on that. And then when you go back up, do all your shopping. Yeah. All right. Well, I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please give it a thumbs up. And if you want to watch more of our videos, please subscribe to our channel. Thanks for watching. Bye bye.

Every time we visit Japan to visit our family, a trip down Narita’s Omotesando (Narita Temple Road), leading to the famous Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, is an absolute must. This street is a vibrant tapestry woven with history, dotted with charming little shops and hails from the Edo era (1603 – 1868), and its rich past is still wonderfully evident in its architecture and atmosphere.

Here are some of our top picks for must-stop spots on Omotesando!