Tokyo's 'Ameyoko' packed with year-end shoppers

Tokyo's 'Ameyoko' packed with year-end shoppers

TOKYO, Japan - The narrow ''America Yokocho,'' known popularly as 'Ameyoko' for short, near Tokyo's JR Ueno Station, is packed with people who seek to buy foodstuffs for their year-end and New Year holiday season.

1 dead in 2nd fire at famed Osaka alley

1 dead in 2nd fire at famed Osaka alley

OSAKA, Japan - A police officer checks the scene of a fire that ravaged the famed Hozenji Yokocho alley in Osaka on April 2. A woman died in the fire that broke out in a three-story wooden building in the alley in Osaka.

Osaka steak restaurant tailors service to foreign visitors

Osaka steak restaurant tailors service to foreign visitors

A waiter at the Hozenji Yokocho branch of Japanese-style beef barbeque restaurant "Matsusaka-gyu Yakiniku M," a winner of travel website Tripadvisor's Travelers' Choice award in 2014, serves two visitors from Malaysia in English during their meal in Osaka, western Japan, on Feb. 5, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Tokyo's 'Ameyoko' packed with year-end shoppers

Tokyo's 'Ameyoko' packed with year-end shoppers

TOKYO, Japan - The narrow ''America Yokocho,'' known popularly as 'Ameyoko' for short, near Tokyo's JR Ueno Station, is packed with people who seek to buy foodstuffs for their year-end and New Year holiday season. (Kyodo)

Nagoya food complex

Nagoya food complex

People walk at Kinshachi Yokocho, a commercial area featuring restaurants offering cuisines in Nagoya, near Nagoya Castle in the central Japan city in March 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Tsukiji market scenes ahead of relocation

Tsukiji market scenes ahead of relocation

People crowd Tsukiji fish market's Uogashi Yokocho area in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2018, ahead of its relocation to the nearby Toyosu waterfront district, drawing the curtain on 83 years of history. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Tsukiji market scenes ahead of relocation

Tsukiji market scenes ahead of relocation

A worker on a turret truck smiles after seeing a tourist taking photos at Tsukiji fish market's Uogashi Yokocho area in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2018, ahead of the relocation of the market to the nearby Toyosu waterfront district drawing the curtain on 83 years of history. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

1 dead in 2nd fire at famed Osaka alley

1 dead in 2nd fire at famed Osaka alley

OSAKA, Japan - A police officer checks the scene of a fire that ravaged the famed Hozenji Yokocho alley in Osaka on April 2. A woman died in the fire that broke out in a three-story wooden building in the alley in Osaka. (Kyodo)