Name: A Shopper's Guide to Narita's Historic Omotesando
Uploaded: 2025-07-28T18:35:16.000Z
Duration: 10 min 59 s
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We're right now we're at Narita Omotesando.

Specifically right now we're at our favorite tea shop on this road but we come to this street in Narita.

It's the road leading down to the Narita temple.

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 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 a lot of artisans here too artisan shops so it's a fantastic place to check out a lot of real Japanese 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 it's like a cafe like you have a little light snack and very traditional Japanese snacks too so that's what's cool about this place.

And if you want real green tea real matcha green tea this is the place to do it.

So yeah so we're just gonna go and explore a bit.

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 mm-hmm kind of like these dark ones.

It's so cute we both got chopsticks for presents this is so nice.

It's all made out of like this one's kuri but most of it in that shop is all made out of bamboo.

All right next we're gonna go to this dango shop it's called Yaki Dango.

Candy really loves dango and they make the best ones on this street.

Yeah this place has several different kinds you can get miso, mitarashi shoyu, tsubuan, and koshian.

So that's the different types sweet soy sauce miso soy sauce and soy sauce and smashed bean paste and smooth.

I got the koshian 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 red bean paste with like it still has like some of the beans it's not like pureed all the way but I got the one that was more like smooth and pureed and and that's the the rice part.

So that was near the top and now we're kind of making our way down downhill and checking out one 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.

Okay 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 miso sweet soy sauce is what they have.

So this is another one of our favorite stops it's the goma 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 korokke 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.

Oh my god it's cool and then she put it on the inside too.

Okay 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 and what else like so they're open from nine to five 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 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 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 years come down the street and watch 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 100 years so it's very very historic and they still have a good rep everybody still comes here locals tourists like if you ever see narita's mascot that's an eel yeah it's an eel and an airplane yeah 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 yeah this is the one to go to apparently we don't eat eel unfortunately we yeah we don't like eel i don't i love the smell of it it's got a really sweet smell um but that's why we don't go because we're not big fans of eel yeah but it's very famous in narita 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 all right this is my favorite place it's all matcha it has rice cracker on the bottom maybe all 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 a thousand yen i don't know if i want to spend that much yeah this one is definitely the cheapest yeah if you're looking for some matcha goodies sweets this is the place to go you can even get instant matcha got my at the darkest green tea ice cream it's kind of like bent hmm there it is it's so good that's 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 because 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 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 to yeah i would suggest like look at everything before and 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