Today I had some business at Waseda University, so I headed over there. The area around Takadanobaba Station, in front of Waseda University, is famous as a place where countless well-known ramen shops compete …
Lots of foreign tourists in Tokyo head to Tsukiji. They come to look around the fish market and to try sushi at the source. So Tsukiji Market is always packed, and since shops aimed at tourists are mixed in wi…
In spring 2008, the plans I’d been working on hit a snag, so I couldn’t go anywhere. At this rate, it looks like life will be a rollercoaster until summer comes. A cruel spring, just as T.S. Eliot …
March is already over and it’s April. Time really flies. Last Sunday it suddenly hit me that I’ve been living in Tokyo and still haven’t been to ageHa even once. How could that possibly be…
Lately I’ve had a lot of reasons to stop by Ginza. (See my previous post for what that’s about..) After wrapping up my business in Ginza, I walked over to Tsukiji to eat. Tsukiji is pretty much the…
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 couldn’t be bothered to cook, so I was thinking of eating out, and decided to try a ramen shop in Ikebukuro that a friend had recommended to me a while back as being really good. It’s Kissui, a s…
It was a friend’s birthday and he wanted to go somewhere good, so on another friend’s recommendation we headed to Sciuè Sciuè, a pizza place in Aoyama. I’m honestly not sure a guy in his thir…
Nantsuttei, a ramen shop famous in Kanagawa Prefecture just south of Tokyo, opened in Ikebukuro at the end of last year. Considering that Ikebukuro is effectively the fiercest ramen battleground in Japan, that…
I’ve been doing my side work at home all this time, but today the weather warmed up and it’s the weekend, so I thought I’d try working outside for a change and headed out to Daikanyama. (Mine…
Here’s something people visiting Tokyo tend to miss: Chiba has quite a few good spots for a shopping run. There’s IKEA, there are outlets, and there’s Carrefour. It’s not an outlet, but…
I stopped by Omotesando Hills, which has become a full-on tourist spot by now, with a friend visiting from Korea. I’ve already taken plenty of photos of Omotesando Hills, so I’ll skip them this tim…