Customers relying on a single line advertisement “Search for food with memories”, finally arrive at Kamogawa Shokudo, which has no signboard or fabric curtain. Those who come to this inconspicuous eatery near Higashi Honganji in Kyoto are people of today who have troubles. Work, family, life, love, interpersonal relationships… Although their troubles are wide-ranging, the eatery’s poster girl Kamogawa Koishi accepts customers’ troubles with sincerity while her father, Nagare uses the instincts and powers of observation honed as a detective, to identify what meals customers truly desire and demonstrates his skills by recreating them. Customers who eat the “food with memories”, which are the fruits of the efforts of Koishi and Nagare, will leave Kamogawa Shokudo, finding the courage to live and pleasures of life.
Japanese study overview
Kamogawa Shokudou is a Japanese drama of 59,029 characters, with 3,727 unique words and 1,214 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,727 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 事thing×194
- 食べるto eat×124
- 言うto say×119
- お父ちゃんdad×115
- 思うto think×113
- 私I×88
- 時time×71
- 聞くto hear×68
- 作るto make×64
- 店store×51
- 探すto search for×49
- お母ちゃんmum×49
- 鴨川Kamokawa×40
- 掬子Kikuko×33
- 金沢Kanazawa (city in Ishikawa)×27
- 傳次郎Denjirō×25
- 初子first child×23
- 明日香Ashitaka×22
- 秀preeminence×21
- 鍋焼きうどんudon, vegetables, fish, etc. in broth, served in a pot×20