Scenes from the Ginza Department Stores
When you think of Ginza, Mitsukoshi and Matsuya are the famous ones. The menu at a place called TAIYAKI Dassai sake chocolate Palet d’Or is famous for its Dassai chocolate. Yamazaki whisky, no less.. …
When you think of Ginza, Mitsukoshi and Matsuya are the famous ones. The menu at a place called TAIYAKI Dassai sake chocolate Palet d’Or is famous for its Dassai chocolate. Yamazaki whisky, no less.. …
Since I was in Ginza anyway, I dropped in on Ginza Shinanoya as well. Well, well.. So the 7th batch of Flaming Heart is out.. Bottles like this too And bottles like this too.. Ginza really does seem a cut a…
I was running around like mad on this trip, but I did stop by Shinbashi too. Sapporo Ramen Dosanko Looks just the same as ever. Shinbashi scenery Pari Ogawaken This place is popular too. Haruchan Ramen The…
Some photos I took around Nihonbashi. Cakes at Atelier Anniversary It just looked lovely, so I took a photo. Au Bon Vieux Temps At the Takashimaya branch of Au Bon Vieux Temps, if you turn up late there are …
There’s a lot of fun stuff down under Tokyo Station. Yabaton Well, would you look at that — this place has made it to Tokyo. Zopf, the curry bread specialist Their curry bread is delicious too. A pie s…
Kohaku has to be the hottest ramen shop in Tokyo right now. The draw is apparently a broth made with shijimi clams from Lake Shinji. It had been a while since I was last in Tokyo, so I had to fit at least one …
I’d heard good things about the Nezu Museum, but when I hear “Nezu” I think of the Nezu in Yanaka-Nezu-Sendagi (just north of Ueno), and I kept wondering what museum there could possibly be i…
Chao bamboo is a Thai restaurant right in the middle of Harajuku. It is very popular, so the problem is that if you turn up late you can be waiting a while for a table. The place It is mostly young people who…
I don’t get to Tokyo much these days, so when I do go I make the full round in one trip. A place like this Nothing much seems to have changed. Whiskies like these Shinjuku Shinanoya really has to be he…
TamJai SamGor I think it’s a Taiwanese place, and it has opened up in Shinjuku. Tempura Tsunahachi It used to be good value, but the prices seem to have crept up a bit.. Cakes at Isetan The shop is ca…
Just putting up some photos I took while wandering around. Patagonia “Fashion has nothing to do with us,” it says. That is a pretty firm sense of identity, I’d say. CSG Blue Cafe Looks like…
Esoragoto means something like a fantasy, a story that could never really happen — or so I gather. There’s an udon shop with that fun name in Harajuku. The place A storefront you absolutely cannot forge…