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title: Rojiura Monja Monkichi Honten
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# Rojiura Monja Monkichi Honten

Places we stopped along the way　/　Chuo, Tokyo

A popular monja shop in a back alley off Monja Street (Tsukishima Nishinaka-dori), its storefront covered in photographs. I had a cabbage-and-pork monja topped with cheese, crunchy noodle snacks and green seaweed, then anko-maki for dessert on the same griddle. Handwritten menus line the wall: eggplant butter, onion butter and more.

3-8-10 Tsukishima, Chuo, Tokyo

## This moment in the journey: From Tsukishima at dusk to the shopping street

When I came out, the lanterns of the monja shop were lit, its storefront in the back alley plastered with photographs. Crates of beer were being unloaded from a liquor-store truck, and beside a utility pole hung the sign of Kishidaya, an old-style tavern.

Camellias bloomed against the evening sky. I passed a barber's pole turning in an alley and an old shop beneath a willow tree, heading for a shopping street with an arched sign. Time to shop for dinner on the way home.

![The monja shop's storefront with lanterns and a noren](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/tokyo-nagaya/s73-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://www.gltjp.com/ja/directory/item/10518/

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/tokyo-nagaya/