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Dorayaki is two small castella-style pancakes sandwiched around a generous filling of sweet azuki bean paste; in Japan we have verified places to eat it in Tokyo. Start with where to eat Dorayaki in Tokyo.
Dorayaki · Tokyo
Dorayaki is two small castella-style pancakes sandwiched around a generous filling of sweet azuki bean paste. Soft, honey-sweetened, eaten any time of day with green tea.
Dorayaki's modern form dates to the early 20th century, when Tokyo's Ueno confectionery Usagiya refined the older single-pancake gyutaiyaki into the now-canonical sandwich shape around 1914. Usagiya still trades on the same Ueno block and its dorayaki is widely cited (Time Out, Michelin Bib Gourmand listings) as the city's reference version. The dish became a national icon after the 1969 manga Doraemon made it the title character's favourite food; Asakusa's Nakamise-dori and Ueno's Ameya-Yokocho have sold them as a souvenir snack ever since.
Where to eat in Tokyo:
- Nakamise-dori snack street
- Ameya-Yokocho street stalls
- Isetan Shinjuku Depachika
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