There’s a little shop near Sendagi Station called Amezaiku-ya where you can order the ultimate sweet selfie! Most often commissioned for wedding cake toppers, all the resident artists need is a photo and a little time to craft a mini-you out of sugar.
This kind of candy sculpting is a very old Japanese art, and even though they make it look way easy, it takes about two years for apprentices to learn how to do it. If you’d like to try it yourself, there’s a workshop where you can attempt to make them, over in Asakusa.
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Girl, how do you come up with this stuff??? I’ve seen the candy, of course, but not the selfies.
FYI, typo on “dog” in the third caption. Just sayin’.
Yikes, I can’t even remember where I heard about this one, but it immediately snagged me because I love the Nezu/Sendagi neighborhood, and am always looking for new stuff to take people to do there. (And HA thanks for alerting me to the fact that I’d gotten myself into some weird little appendix of the internet community that is obsessed with the shiba “doge” meme and that it’s not exactly a universally familiar reference! Changed, for the better )
I feel that way about Ueno–always something to see if you can stand the crowds. Sancha can be that way but fewer choice.
And there you go. I didn’t know about the “doge” meme, so either I’m a dinosaur or you’re right and it was too obscure. Either is equally possible. 😉
By the way, love your new winter profile pic!