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Dont forget to buy specialty candles from Ameyoko Street

Between the JR Ueno and Okachimachi Stations in Tokyo's Ueno (Ueno-Asakusa-Ryogoku) district, the Ameyoko Arcade offers a lively mix of over 500 small shops and street stalls, inexpensive restaurants, and pachinko parlors. Selling everything from fresh fish to jewelry, exotic spices to handbags, sea urchin meat to fancy perfumes, this former black market area still offers plenty for its visitors to buy, see, and be surprised by.

The bustling marketplace is open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. each day, and its location paralleling the JR Yamanote Line gives it a charming back-alley vibe. Some of the Ameyoko shopping highlights include Japanese candies at the store Niki, inexpensive goodies at the 100 Yen shops, and specialty pen stores featuring both Western- and Japanese-style writing utensils.