When you travel you get curious about the hotels in the area, but when you live in a city for a long time you stop caring what hotels there are around town. Lately, since I started doing restaurant reviews, I&…
Whenever friends from Korea come to visit Tokyo, I really struggle with where to take them. I’d love to take them somewhere tasty with a nice atmosphere, but that’s easier said than done. Most visi…
Wandering around Ginza, snapping this and that. Manneken, the famous waffle shop It’s the waffle place right in the middle of Ginza that people line up for. Mind you, the shop is so tiny that there̵…
On a sunny day off I had a few errands in Ginza, and with the time left over I came to Tsukiji. Tsukiji has so many places to eat ^_^ I’m happy every time I go. The shrine in Tsukiji’s inner market…
I was wondering where to have dinner in the Marunouchi Building and headed for somewhere I could eat something light. Oyster bars are popular in Tokyo these days, and places with a similar concept have been po…
During Golden Week everywhere is packed, so it’s hard to find a spot to take a break. After wondering where to find a decent café, I headed to ig café on the 5th floor of the Shin-Marunouchi Building. It…
If I only ever had the chance to eat one meal in Tokyo, I think I’d pick this place, with a little hesitation ^_^. Kurofunetei is a yoshoku (Japanese-style Western food) restaurant near Ueno Station. Bei…
I finally went to a famous soba shop in Azabu-Juban with a tradition going back more than 200 years. Places like this are delicious pretty much 100% of the time. If a shop has survived 200 years on soba alone,…
I was wandering around Aoyama and ducked into a café for a break. Since I’m so used to running around on a hardcore solo schedule, I’d never really understood the point of cafés, but these past few…
A friend came over from Korea. We met up in Shinjuku and, after thinking about what to eat, decided on proper tonkatsu, the kind that’s hard to find back in Korea. I thought about going to a tonkatsu spe…
There’s a pizza chain that’s been expanding at a frightening pace lately, and I’d had my eye on it for a while. The interior is stylish and the menu isn’t that expensive, yet for a plac…
After a good meal at Kitazawa Club, I was about to head to a café nearby when my friend said we had some time, so why not go somewhere nice. When a friend puts it like that, what can you do? I took us to the b…