A Stroll Around Ebisu
I headed out to Ebisu for an appointment, and the weather was gorgeous. On a day like this, pretty much any photo you take comes out well. Landscapes, that is. Portraits, not so much. So here are some photos I…
I headed out to Ebisu for an appointment, and the weather was gorgeous. On a day like this, pretty much any photo you take comes out well. Landscapes, that is. Portraits, not so much. So here are some photos I…
This time I booked a place in Roppongi. Food, shopping and sightseeing are all packed into one area, so when I can’t be bothered to travel far, nowhere beats Roppongi. Most tourists are probably better o…
Matagi is a robatayaki in Roppongi. The senior member who handles Tokyo for the gourmet club I’m part of said this place looked good and suggested we go, so I went in with high hopes. When I looked it up…
Yakiniku is always delicious. The only shame is that it’s too pricey to go often. This time a get-together came up out of the blue, and after mulling over where to go, I settled on this place, which I re…
I came to Tokyo on a business trip, but pretty much all I remember is the eating. I’m thinking of posting it bit by bit. The first place I went on day one was Hatsushima, a small izakaya in Shinbashi. It…
Restaurant Hara is a French restaurant in my neighbourhood. It seems to have opened only about a month ago, but it’s always full, so I made a proper reservation and went with a friend. Wine and glasses …
I’ve put together the things I picked up at the Arita Ceramics Fair, mostly for the record. Nothing special… though. A plate with a soft bluish tint I impulse-bought this to serve my stir-fried ch…
We left Arita at 3 p.m. I figured leaving around then would get us there by evening, but I got that wrong. Past Fukuoka there was a traffic jam that dragged on for about 70 km. It would’ve been a lot eas…
The day after hitting Fukuoka, I headed to Arita, famous for its porcelain fair. It’s in Saga Prefecture, but geographically it’s closer to Sasebo. It’s pretty deep in the hills, so I wondere…
For dinner in Fukuoka I picked Kiharu, an izakaya famous for its saba (mackerel) dishes. It’s not far from Nakasu. Maybe it’s because I’ve turned into a middle-aged guy, but lately I keep cra…
After lunch I went back to the hotel in the late afternoon, took a nap, and headed out again in the evening. Maybe because Dontaku was over, things had calmed down a lot, but it was still Golden Week, so the y…
In Japan, pretty much every neighbourhood has at least one good place for eel, tonkatsu and sushi. Partly for that reason, and partly because it isn’t eel season right now, I didn’t particularly wa…