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…
I heard there was an event at a club & lounge in Ginza called Sabaku no Bara (“Desert Rose”), so I went along. LAVA, a DJ who plays Latin-tempo music I really like, was on the lineup, so I was…
Maybe two weeks ago, a well-known member of a certain Korean wine café came to Japan to see the exhibition of original Mouton Rothschild label artwork, spotted news of a spring wine sale event in Ginza, and po…
I’ve been ending up at the Marunouchi Building a lot lately. There are plenty of decent cafés, and surprisingly a lot to shop for and look at, so it works well as a meeting spot for both personal and wor…
Even though I live in Tokyo, I don’t get to Ginza all that often. These days there are sub-centres like Roppongi Hills, Shiodome and the Marunouchi Building that easily rival the old downtown, so there&#…
Original title: Sushizanmai Conveyor-Belt Sushi in Tsukiji, Tatsutano in Ginza, Pierre Marcolini, and Horaiya in UenoWhen you arrive in Tokyo in the morning, Tsukiji is about the only place worth going for a m…
I finally went to La Bettola bis, known as one of the hardest places to book in Tokyo. In the Tokyo restaurant guides it’s always near the top, yet the dinner course is an amazing 3,300 yen, so I’d…
The Noir chocolate from Satie, a French chocolate shop in the Ginza Mitsukoshi department store, is my favorite chocolate in Japan. It’s the only time of year they have a sale, on Valentine’s Day ^…
Today I headed into Tokyo to buy a bunch of things my friends had asked me to pick up, since the exchange rate is good right now. The problem is that my own salary has effectively been cut… Oh well……
Here’s a round-up of photos I’ve been saving up. The photos from La Bettola in Ginza, where I ate and came away ridiculously happy, will get a post of their own. (The sea urchin pasta that melts in…
Ginza, glittering with luxury brands and upscale department stores, and Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo’s kitchen, couldn’t be more different in image, but in reality they’re very close to each ot…