Tag: デパ地下
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What Is Depachika? A Traveler’s Guide to Japan’s Food Basement Culture
The First Time You Enter a Depachika You take the escalator down, expecting something like a supermarket. Instead, the air changes. Light bounces off polished glass cases. Rows of staff in white gloves and pressed uniforms bow and greet each customer by turn. Somewhere nearby, someone is slicing fruit with the precision of a jeweler…