Tsukudani are various foods – mainly seafood and seaweed but sometimes meat and vegetables too – that have been preserved in a sweet soy sauce. This gorgeous weathered wooden shop with a giant indigo noren (curtain) at the front has been a specialist at making tsukudani since 1837.
Tenyasu Honten
Ginza & Tsukiji
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