Synopsis

The area surrounding Yotsuya Station in Tokyo is undergoing redevelopment, yet tucked away in a side street, a small taiyaki shop has maintained its presence for sixty years. Each day, a crowd of dozens forms in its queue, the line lengthening with the deepening cold. The shop offers only one filling: a traditional grain-based red bean paste. Baked in molds unchanged since the shop's opening, the taiyaki sells for one hundred and fifty yen apiece, with two thousand five hundred units purchased d