Scenes Around Shinbashi
I was running around like mad on this trip, but I did stop by Shinbashi too. Sapporo Ramen Dosanko Looks just the same as ever. Shinbashi scenery Pari Ogawaken This place is popular too. Haruchan Ramen The…
I was running around like mad on this trip, but I did stop by Shinbashi too. Sapporo Ramen Dosanko Looks just the same as ever. Shinbashi scenery Pari Ogawaken This place is popular too. Haruchan Ramen The…
Some photos I took around Nihonbashi. Cakes at Atelier Anniversary It just looked lovely, so I took a photo. Au Bon Vieux Temps At the Takashimaya branch of Au Bon Vieux Temps, if you turn up late there are …
There’s a lot of fun stuff down under Tokyo Station. Yabaton Well, would you look at that — this place has made it to Tokyo. Zopf, the curry bread specialist Their curry bread is delicious too. A pie s…
Kohaku has to be the hottest ramen shop in Tokyo right now. The draw is apparently a broth made with shijimi clams from Lake Shinji. It had been a while since I was last in Tokyo, so I had to fit at least one …
Chao bamboo is a Thai restaurant right in the middle of Harajuku. It is very popular, so the problem is that if you turn up late you can be waiting a while for a table. The place It is mostly young people who…
I don’t get to Tokyo much these days, so when I do go I make the full round in one trip. A place like this Nothing much seems to have changed. Whiskies like these Shinjuku Shinanoya really has to be he…
TamJai SamGor I think it’s a Taiwanese place, and it has opened up in Shinjuku. Tempura Tsunahachi It used to be good value, but the prices seem to have crept up a bit.. Cakes at Isetan The shop is ca…
Just putting up some photos I took while wandering around. Patagonia “Fashion has nothing to do with us,” it says. That is a pretty firm sense of identity, I’d say. CSG Blue Cafe Looks like…
Esoragoto means something like a fantasy, a story that could never really happen — or so I gather. There’s an udon shop with that fun name in Harajuku. The place A storefront you absolutely cannot forge…
There is an Ippudo inside Harakado, so I went in for a bowl. The place Shiromaru Motoaji Akamaru Shinaji Well, Ippudo is always good, isn’t it. The standard for tonkotsu, you could say. Gyoza The noo…
Kyoto Station is enormous, and it is packed with all sorts of souvenir shops. I took a good long walk around. Sandwiches and the like Shinshindo, a long-running Kyoto bakery, seems to be the popular one here….
Horiuchi Fruit Farm is a place I remember enjoying in Osaka a while back. I heard the main store was in Nara, so I went to check it out, and it turned out to be right in the middle of the shopping arcade. Nara…