Tsukiji Yamacho
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01 / Tamagoyaki — The morning's first egg

YAMA CHO.

Folded fresh, every morning.
Tsukiji Yamacho
— Open
6:00 – 15:30

Tamagoyaki, folded fresh each morning in Tsukiji's outer market.

Tamagoyaki, plated
02 / Origin

One thing, every morning.

A one-product shop in the Tsukiji Outer Market. Six AM, the copper pan goes on the flame. Open every day of the year.

03 / Tamagoyaki

The only thing we make.

Egg whisked into dashi. Folded thin, layer by layer, over a square copper pan. The same hand, the same motion, every morning.

Tamagoyaki (rolled egg)
玉子焼

Tamagoyaki — folded thin, layer by layer, in a square copper pan.

Price at the shop
04 / The Craft

Fire, pan, hand.

The chef's hands at the copper pan
At the copper pan
Tamagoyaki cooking in the copper pan
Thin, layer by layer
Tamagoyaki cross-section — the folded layers
The folded cross-section

Copper transfers heat quickly. The dashi-bound egg sets evenly, layer by layer. The hand moves with the pan. Each fold the same thickness as the last.

05 / Visit

The noren goes up at six.

Address
4-10-10 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Phone
Hours
6:00 – 15:30 — 365 days a year
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Tamagoyaki packaged for takeaway
Wrapped at the counter for takeaway