Menya Goto, a Ramen Shop in Ikebukuro
I’ve made up my mind to eat a lunch special every Saturday. The main idea is to visit places that are closed on Sundays or in the evening, or that are famous for their lunch sets. This time I went to Men…
I’ve made up my mind to eat a lunch special every Saturday. The main idea is to visit places that are closed on Sundays or in the evening, or that are famous for their lunch sets. This time I went to Men…
Nippori, Uguisudani and Ueno are actually well known as Tokyo’s rough neighborhoods. Apparently Shinjuku and Ikebukuro used to have that vibe, but these days it has mostly shifted over toward Ueno. I don…
My friends wanted to go, so I went along, but it was a really disappointing place. So I won’t go into detail; I’m just posting this for the record. That said, the cream puff in the last photo was p…
I went to Sanjusangendo, a Japanese restaurant in Odaiba. I didn’t pick the place myself; there was a get-together and I was invited. The food was underwhelming and the prices were high, so it’s no…
I heard there was a ramen shop with a fun concept in a place called Oimachi, so I went to check it out. Apparently the soup is tomato-based. I was so curious what it would taste like that I just had to go. The…
A place I’d never seen before opened up in Shinjuku, so I went to check it out. It didn’t look like a great restaurant, but I was curious anyway. The fact that it served Okinawan food also caught m…
A few weeks ago I went to a reggae festival in Yoyogi. I’m not really into reggae, but a lot of my friends were taking part. The weather was perfect for an outdoor event, too. A performance in front of M…
Ikebukuro is the fiercest ramen battleground in Japan. There are countless shops, and hardly a single one of them isn’t a famous name. Out of all of them, I went to Nakamoto, which is supposedly the hot …
I ordered the 7,000-yen business set course, and it was nothing special. Still, I’m posting it for the record. Since I wasn’t happy with it, I’ll skip the detailed descriptions. The owner an…
Not many people realise it, but Meguro has quite a cluster of ramen shops. I think it’s because the area is full of salarymen working late into the night. It’s not quite Shinjuku or Ikebukuro, but …
Shinagawa is a neighborhood with next to nothing for tourists to see. But the Shinkansen stops here and there are quite a few big companies, so it’s grown into a secondary city center. My office is nearb…
A club in Azabu-Juban hosted a DJ event called CyberJapan, with DAISHI DANCE and MITOMI TOKOTO. You can find the details on the website below. http://www.cyberjapan.tv/party/pink Well… I actually went, a…