People frequent 'taiyaki' pancake shop on time-honored Tokyo street

There is an endless stream of people visiting Naniwaya Sohonten, one of Japan's oldest shops selling "taiyaki" fish-shaped pancakes with a filling of sweet bean paste, on a shopping street in Tokyo's Azabu Juban district on March 13, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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