Lake Yamanaka in Yamanashi
Around Mt. Fuji there are five big lakes known as the Fuji Five Lakes, and a lot of tourist spots are clustered around them. There are local-food restaurants, hot springs, and the scenery is pretty gorgeous to…
Around Mt. Fuji there are five big lakes known as the Fuji Five Lakes, and a lot of tourist spots are clustered around them. There are local-food restaurants, hot springs, and the scenery is pretty gorgeous to…
There are a few places to visit in Gotemba besides the outlet mall. The distillery is somewhere I had wanted to go for ages, but there was the constraint that I could not go unless a friend who drives and does…
Maihama is what you could call the number-one lunch spot in Shinbashi. It opens at 11:30, and the line is already long from that moment. For a 1,000 yen lunch, what you get is just absurd. The front ent…
Isetan Shinjuku runs a year-round series called Ma Patisserie, where they collaborate with small dessert shops. A while back I bought a cake there from a place called Chant d’Oiseau and was blown away. &…
Shinbashi has a few shops famous for their ramen, and this is one of them. It sits in an incredibly narrow alley. It is hard enough to find as it is, and with construction going on it was even harder t…
Whenever some interesting whisky came out, I used to just buy it, but these days I tend to try it at a bar first and then buy. There are whiskies I bought after a bar recommended them and I had a taste, and th…
Shinbashi has quite a few places famous for lunch, but I’d say this one and Maihama are the standouts. The front entrance From the outside it looks a bit run-down. Taimeshi set meal The n…
This is my regular lunch roundup. The really good places get their own posts, but the ones I just drop into now and then need to be collected like this. Fried garlic topping and black curry Takeout fro…
The reason I came back to Bistro Maeda was that I had some business in Kappabashi. There are a few other good places around, but I have already been to pretty much all the ones worth going to.. and it is on my…
I bought these on a rainy day, so there are no photos of the storefront or the inside, but they were so good that I wanted to post about them anyway. As far as I know, Quiche Yoroizuka has shops at the three-w…
I picked up a Kouign Tatin at Philippe Conticini, the new shop in Ginza Six. The packaging Pretty, isn’t it. Round desserts Quite a distinctive style. Cross section of the Kouign T…
“Chahan” is short for “Chinese gohan”, which means fried rice. I had heard there was a place in Shinbashi that does fried rice really well, so I went one evening. Chahan-Oh means “…