Milan, an Indian Curry Restaurant in Nakano
Nakano is one of my favourite areas in Tokyo. It’s a residential neighbourhood where lots of people who work around Shinjuku live, so it has a calm vibe, prices are low and there’s plenty of shoppi…
Nakano is one of my favourite areas in Tokyo. It’s a residential neighbourhood where lots of people who work around Shinjuku live, so it has a calm vibe, prices are low and there’s plenty of shoppi…
I don’t usually watch much TV, but last month, while I was living in a hotel thanks to a friend’s help, I caught a show picking the best mango pudding in Tokyo. It’s sold at the boutique-and-…
For the first time in a while I had some CDs to buy, so I headed over to the Kanda / Ochanomizu / Jimbocho area. While thinking about where to have lunch, I decided on Restaurant Shichijo, a yoshoku (Western-s…
Walking the back streets of Shibuya at night, I found that an abura soba specialist that’s been a big hit in Akasaka had opened here. I’m supposed to be on a diet, so I really shouldn’t be ea…
I’m on a diet these days. -_- I was already showing signs of a bit of a belly, but the aftermath of not being able to control what I ate during the brutal Mt. Fuji climbing schedule hit hard. As part of …
From the 7th station to the 8th station it’s all rock, so the climb was anything but easy. If you’re going up without a guide, it’d be a bit dangerous at night. Also, you can push your way up…
Mt. Fuji is only open for climbing for two months in summer, July and August. People say there’s not much to see up there, but I felt I ought to climb it at least once for the memory, so I went with a fr…
The only reason I had dinner in Roppongi on purpose was the desserts you eat sitting at the counter of Toshi Yoroizuka, a place I’d been dying to try. Last order is at 9, but you have to go to the shop i…
On Tuesday a friend suddenly asked if I wanted to grab dinner together on Wednesday evening. He said it was his treat, so if there was somewhere I wanted to go, now was the time — and I really agonised over wh…
Hanzomon and Kojimachi sit right next to Akasaka. It looks like a nothing-special neighborhood, but it’s actually the center of Japanese politics, with the Imperial Palace, the National Diet Building and…
I’d been hearing for quite a while that the biggest outlet mall in the Kanto region had opened in Saitama. I kept meaning to check it out, and this time I needed to buy some beachwear and hiking gear -_-…
Saitama borders Tokyo and covers a lot of ground, yet it doesn’t have many places you could really call great eats. So even though it’s not far from where I live, I’ve hardly ever gone. Hones…