The city is also home to food theme parks such as Gyoza Stadium and Ice Cream World, vending machines filled with canned coffee drinks, and probably more food fads than anywhere else in the world (today its pancakes, tomorrow it might be codroe).
Spaghetti, which the Japanese love to eat with seaweed and cod's roe, has risen by over a quarter in the past year, and at the end of April hoarders cleared the nation's supermarket shelves of butter.