Sushizanmai, Asakusa
Sushizanmai has been all over the news since the start of the year, so I dropped in for the first time in a while. When I visited the main branch in Tsukiji years ago I was really impressed, but since then the…
Sushizanmai has been all over the news since the start of the year, so I dropped in for the first time in a while. When I visited the main branch in Tsukiji years ago I was really impressed, but since then the…
I went to Odaiba on a sunny weekend. Going by way of Toyosu, it turned out to be closer than I thought. The Toyosu scenery Beautiful. A great road for running. The Gundam at DiverCity Tokyo The Gundam, th…
Near Yurakucho Station in Ginza there is a small wagashi shop called Osumi Tamaya. Maybe because it has been in business in Ginza for so long, it is fairly well known. I heard they sell a limited-edition Ichig…
After the soba, I moved on to Roppongi for dessert. Le Chocolat de H is a chocolate specialty shop that Mont St. Clair, the famous patisserie in Jiyugaoka, opened in Roppongi. As you would expect in Roppongi, …
There are not many soba shops in Tokyo that open on Mondays. A friend was visiting from Korea and we thought about having soba; these days Azumabashi Yabu Soba would be my top recommendation, but where we ende…
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 …