Nakano has Mandarake, which buys and sells second-hand anime goods, Fujiya Camera, which buys and sells used AV gear, and shops that trade in watches and jewellery. If you live in Tokyo, you end up having a re…
Part of the reason for doing a first round in Shimbashi was so we could head to Ginza for round two. This bar is run by Kazuo Ueda, the inventor of the hard shake. It’s famous and I’d wanted to vis…
A friend was coming to visit, so we went to Mitsumasa, a kushiyaki place in Shinbashi. Highball Tsukune and pork jowl (tontoro) Stuffed green peppers Shishit…
I go to Makigushi in Shinjuku really often, and every time I post about it I wonder whether I really need to. But I’m not running a restaurant-review blog, so I’ll just keep posting without long ex…
On a sunny spring day I took a loop around the Shirokane area. A newly opened dessert shop I just walked past this time because of what I had scheduled afterwards, but it looked promising. Cherr…
There’s a roast beef bowl place in Akihabara where people line up to eat. Roast beef bowls are all the rage in Japan these days, and I’d wanted to try one somewhere, so I figured I might as well go…
These days, whenever I’m craving something good, I head to a yakiniku place. Proof that I’ve turned into a middle-aged guy, maybe.. I’ve already been to Stamina-en a few times, so it feels fa…
I go to Tsukiji pretty often, but I rarely bother taking photos. Getting up early on a weekend morning is never easy. Here are the handful of shots I did take. The tuna auction floor All those tuna are…
I heard a rumor that a long-established Hungarian cafe-slash-restaurant had opened in Omotesando, that fashionable part of town, so I went to check it out. They say it has 150 years of tradition, and a restaur…
Wandering around Mita one weekend, I came across a bakery that looked promising. The place, more or less One side is set up as a café where you can also sit down for a meal. The bread, more or l…
Near Hamamatsucho, which is linked to Haneda Airport by the monorail, there are two big hotels. One is the Shiba Park Hotel and the other is the InterContinental Tokyo Bay. Maybe because there’s a free s…
Valentine’s Day had been such a big deal that I figured White Day would have something going on too, but there was hardly any event at all. I don’t think it was like this last year… hmm……