Shirohige’s Cream Puff Shop, Takaido
Takaido, near Kichijoji, is far from where I live and is a quiet residential area with not much going on, so it is not somewhere you would go out of your way for, but I heard a rumor about a workshop selling T…
Takaido, near Kichijoji, is far from where I live and is a quiet residential area with not much going on, so it is not somewhere you would go out of your way for, but I heard a rumor about a workshop selling T…
I was wondering where to have lunch in Kichijoji and settled on Chikurosanbo, a Chinese restaurant with a high Tabelog score. I wanted something a bit more serious than a cafe lunch. Kirin Classic Lager Fir…
I headed out to Kichijoji over the weekend. It is far from home, but every now and then I end up with a reason to go. The first stop was Satou, famous for its menchikatsu. The front of Satou The second floo…
Hardly anyone in Korea knows this, I suspect, but Asakusa has no fewer than four well-known Russian restaurants. Nowhere else in Japan, let alone Tokyo, has Russian cuisine concentrated like this, and when I l…
I was out in Hamamatsu for the day, and while wondering where to have lunch, I ended up at a Chinese restaurant I had heard was famous. The building entrance A very modern-looking building. The restaurant i…
The biggest specialty of the Hamamatsu area is unagi pie, a pastry with eel powder kneaded into it, and it sells well all over Japan. It is a bit too sweet for my taste, so I prefer other local specialties, bu…
I arrived in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka over the New Year holidays, and it was already almost dinner time. So I decided to have ramen at an old ramen shop nearby. The front entrance The place has been in business …
Over the New Year holidays I had a chance to go to the Gotemba Premium Outlets. While wondering where to have lunch, I went with the safe bet, Uogashi Sushi. It is a popular place – or rather, there are …
In Asakusa there is the golden Asahi Beer headquarters shaped like a beer mug, and right next to it is an izakaya-slash-restaurant run by Asahi Beer. I had heard many times that the beer tastes amazing there s…
Walking around Harajuku, I spotted a newly opened candy shop, Candy Artisans The Red Balloon. The front entrance There was some kind of big steel table inside with a crowd gathered around it, so I went in o…
Cafe Kaila, the restaurant that came over from Hawaii, has moved from Asakusa to Harajuku. Apparently the lines got so long that the neighbors complained loudly. When business is that good, moving up to the ma…
I had long heard the rumour that one of the best soba shops in all of Tokyo was tucked away in a corner of Asakusa, and I already knew exactly where it was, but every time I went it was closed, so I only got t…