I never saw anything like the plastic food displays in Tokyo! Isn’t there a street there devoted to many manufacturers of fake food?
Not a single street, but an entire district of about 6 blocks or so. If I had a subway map of Tokyo in front of me, I could tell you which one. It was on the line I rode from Kita-Kokubun to Higashi Ginza until the summer of 1994, when I got a job promotion and moved to Kobe.
Kappabashi-dori is the famous street, aka Kitchen Town. Wholesale kitchen everything - ginormous cooking pots, all manner of cooking utensils, pans, servingware... display signs, menu holders, barstools/furniture, and of course the fake food. There's a giant chef with his giant chef's on top of a roof at the beginning of the street.
Not for husbands and children due to the densely packed shops. Wives can go into the smallest shop and disappear for an eternity, while husbands are stranded on the sidewalk in the hot sun. Multiply that scene over and over for every ten feet of road frontage, and you will understand that it is a true horror zone for normal men, lol.
And P.S. don't keep tanking up at the vending machines because there's only one quasi-public restroom in a community center/library which is at the *other* end of the street.