両国といえば相撲、相撲といえばちゃんこ。ここ相撲の聖地、両国の駅前にあるちゃんこ霧島。
元大関の霧島(現・陸奥親方)のお店として有名で、霧島はその甘いマスクと筋肉美から女性に大人気でした。その姿は和製ヘラクレスとも言われたほどです。
そんな霧島プロデュースのちゃんこ店では、鶏がらで十分にダシをとった白味噌仕立てのさっぱりスープが自慢で、老若男女問わず厚い支持を受けています。
本場所が始まると、全国各地より遥々足を運ぶ人もおり店内は常に賑わいます。
The name of Ryogoku is associated with Sumo and also Sumo is associated with Chanko. " Chanko Kirishima", in front of Ryogoku station at holy ground of Sumo.
This restaurant is famous because of the owner Kirishima, a past Ozeki and Mutsu Oyakata. Kirishima, was popular among women since he had a pretty face and good muscles. People said he was like japanese Hercules.
At the chanko restaurant Kirishima produced, the soup of white misho with soup stock from chicken broth is very popular regardless of age and sex.
When a honbasho, an official professional sumo tournament, starts, people come from all over Japan and the restaurant is always crowded.
It was famous as a shop of Kirishima of former ozeki (existing Michinoku's boss), and Kirishima was extreme popularity for a woman because of the sweet mask and muscle beauty. The figure was said to be Japanese Hercules.
In the chanko shop such Kirishima produces, the point of proud is the light soup with the white miso, which use the soup stock from chicken bones enough, and many people evaluate it very well, regardless of age and sex.
When a regular sumo tournament begins, some people come from the distance, from each place of the whole country, and the shop always does well.
街中には自転車を漕ぐ力士や力士の銅像、ちゃんこ霧島に入ればボリューミーな本格ちゃんこに霧島現役当時の写真や記念品などが飾られていたりと、正に相撲の街といった楽しみ方ができます。
変わり種の人気メニューには相撲コロッケという、呆れるほど大きなジャンボコロッケがあります。
キャベツのせん切りの上に、土俵を模したあまりにも大きなコロッケが鎮座。そして、力士を模した肉団子が2個相対しています。一人では食べきれないボリュームのコロッケをナイフで切り分け、甘辛のソースを絡ませていただきます。
There is an unusual but popular menu called Sumo croquette, which is amazingly huge.
A huge croquette representing a sumo ring is sitting on the sliced cabbage and two meat balls representing sumo wrestlers face each other. Cutting the hearty croquette which you cannot eat on your own, you can have it with spicy and sweet sauce.
They have a popular menu, unusual Sumo korokke. It's amazingly huge.
There is so huge korokke as the Dohyo, the sumo wrestling ring, on shredded cabbage. And also 2 meat balls as sumo wrestlers on it. We cut a korokke by a knife, even though it's too huge to eat by a person, and have it with salty-sweet sauce.
you can see the blonds statue pedaling a bicycle, Sumo wrestler Kirishima's pictures and trophies of his active days
are displayed, you can enjoy the mood like a real sumo town.
As a popular curious menu, the named sumo co-locket is surprising big jumbo co-locket.
The co-locket put like the ring on the cabbage sliced thin on the plate.
And two meet balls are put to face together like sumo wrestlers.
But you may not be able to eat it completely by only yourself , so you cut the volume of the co-locket with knife, you eat it with dipping the sweet and spicy source.