Kosetsu Ichiba Market

Kosetsu Ichiba Market Review

Two covered shopping arcades snake out from Kokusai-dori, filled with shops specializing less in trinkets and more in snack-foods and produce. Sample deep-friend ball doughnuts, leaf-wrapped mochi, and tropical fruit drinks on your way to the expansive market await you at the first big intersection. Passing between outdoor fruit stalls into an unassuming doorway leads you to a carnival of delightful and grotesque butchers' counters, fish mongers, and pickle-sellers. Smoked pigs' faces stare ghoulishly down from racks displaying every other part of the animal (including some things you likely never thought anyone could eat), displays rivaled only by multicolor shellfish, neon eels, and giant crustaceans so shockingly exotic they seem like they were pinched from Churami Aquarium.