If you are on a pilgrimage to Tokyo’s anime sacred sites, here are five gourmet takeout places you should try!

A leisurely stroll while chewing a bite-sized taiyaki

『Touken Ranbu ONLINE』

Touken Ranbu ONLINE is a sword raising simulation game in which the players collect, enhance, develop, and win battles of Touken Danshi, who have been transformed into warriors from famous Japanese swords. Tokyo National Museum in Taito Ward has been registered as a sacred site for Touken Ranbu. Many people have visited the museum and enjoyed its collection while thinking about the Touken Danshi based on some of the famous swords exhibited there. If you are on a pilgrimage of the sacred sites, we recommend you visit the Ueno store of Fuudoka Tourindo, a Japanese confectionery store in a residential area north of Ueno Park. Founded in 1926 with a history of more than 90 years, the famous long-established store is an impressive old Japanese-style building. They sell various Japanese confectionery including seasonal sweets like fresh mizuyokan available only in summer as well as standard yokan and monaka, but the most famous item is their bite-sized taiyaki (fish-shaped cakes). With its small size making it easy for women and children to eat and generous filling of sweet mashed red bean paste from head to tail, this is a confectionery masterpiece. It’s also the perfect gift for weddings, birthdays, and other celebratory occasions!

Fuudoka Tourindo, Ueno Store

Address	1-5-7 Ueno Sakuragi, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Tel	03-3828-9826
Business hours	9:30–17:00 (sales / café)
Regular holiday	Monday (open on national holidays and peak seasons), Jan. 1–3
Carpark	None
HP	https://www.tourindou100.jp/*

*There is a link to a Japanese site.

Generously-filled cream puffs for takeout!

『TOEI ANIMATION MUSEUM』

Nerima Ward is the birthplace of animation in Japan and is still the home of many anime production companies. Inside the Toei Animation Oizumi Studio at Oizumi Gakuen is the Toei Animation Museum, which is registered as an anime sacred place. In the museum precious production materials are exhibited, such as storyboards and celluloid images. After you’ve savored the history of animation at the museum, we recommend you drop in at Nerima’s famous sweet store, Seiyogashi Odafuji, which moved to OZ Studio City in 2021. One of the store’s flagship products is Oizumi Cream, a deluxe cream puff with crispy puff pastry made using carefully selected Hokkaido butter, generously filled with mild custard cream containing aromatic vanilla beans and Hokkaido fresh cream. Oizumi Cream has been chosen as one of the “Nerikore” collection of recommended Nerima products and the 21 famous products of Nerima. It’s a very popular item—they sell about 400 of them on weekdays and 600–700 on weekends until they sell out in the evening.

Seiyogashi Odafuji, Oizumi Store

Address	OZ Studio City 1st Floor, 2-34-1 Higashioizumi, Nerima-ku, Tokyo
Tel	03-5387-4123
Business hours	10:00–18:00,Weekends/holidays -19:00
Regular holiday	Monday (open on national holidays)
Car park	800 cars (OZ Studio City), 1 hour free, then 200 yen per 30 min.
Website	http://www.odafuji.jp/*

*There is a link to a Japanese site.

A tasty walk in Tachikawa with meat-packed curry bread

『A Certain Scientific Railgun T』『A Certain Magical Index Ⅲ』

Tachikawa City provides the motif of an “academic city” as the setting for the anime A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun.
These anime depict everyday life and incidents involving students in an academic city who take special classes in the development of supernatural powers. Walking in the area around Tachikawa Station while recalling various scenes from these anime is one of the pleasures of a pilgrimage of anime sacred sites. While you are on this tour, we recommend that you drop in at the bakery, Pain Pati Anthology. Located on Tachikawa Street just a short walk from Tachikawa Station, the log cabin-style building is sure to catch your eye. It’s a popular bakery that has been featured many times on TV and in magazines since it opened in 2015. They usually offer about 80 varieties of freshly baked bread and sandwiches and their bakers make a point of not using any additives or preservatives. The store’s terrace is open to the customers as a café space, so you can eat the fresh bread you’ve bought right there. The most popular item is the Chunky Beef Curry Bread generously filled with beef and red wine curry sauce.

Pain Pati Anthology

Address	5-62-1 Sakae-cho, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo
Tel	042-537-8001
Business hours	7:00–19:00
Regular holiday	Tuesday (open on national holidays and closed the next day)
Car park	46 cars
HP	http://www.painpati.com/*

*There is a link to a Japanese site.

A new way of enjoying the sacred place pilgrimage: Collaborative beverage vending machines!

Since Tachikawa City is famous as an anime sacred place related to the “A Certain” series, we also want to call your attention to a collaborative beverage. The canned beverage Coconut & Pineapple Cider, which was sold in vending machines with “A Certain” original wrappings from 2014 to 2019, is back! Since June 11, 2022, it has been sold with eight different designs in 18 original wrapping vending machines in Tachikawa City. To enjoy the anime series even more, how about going on your sacred place pilgrimage with an anime-themed drink in your hand?