Odaiba – Meijin no Hitosara
I went to Odaiba for a company event. Once it was over, I headed off on my own to the 3rd floor of Venus Fort, to a place called Meijin no Hitosara (“a master’s plate”), where casual branches…
I went to Odaiba for a company event. Once it was over, I headed off on my own to the 3rd floor of Venus Fort, to a place called Meijin no Hitosara (“a master’s plate”), where casual branches…
I went to Komagata Dozeu, a loach restaurant in Asakusa with a 200-year history. Dojo means loach in Japanese. The sign says “dozeu” (どぜう), but it seems you read it as “dojo”. The fron…
Hmm… I haven’t been carrying my camera around lately, so I don’t have any photos I took myself. -_-;; For the details, have a look at their homepage below. http://www.ichiran.co.jp/index….
Today I headed into Tokyo to buy a bunch of things my friends had asked me to pick up, since the exchange rate is good right now. The problem is that my own salary has effectively been cut… Oh well……
One nice thing about Chiba is that there are loads of places worth riding out to by bike. Last Saturday I finally had some free time for the first time in ages, so I headed out thinking I’d go see some a…
I went to the ramen shop that’s supposed to be the tastiest in Chiba. I’d had a bad experience here before and had sworn never to go back, but when I stopped by Chiba Station around 9 p.m. looking …
Late October is when the new-season soba comes out. So soba full of deep buckwheat aroma, eaten in late autumn, just can’t help being special. Honestly, I’m not really a big soba fan. Soba is basic…
The rankings of Shinjuku’s famous ramen shops have shifted a lot. I went to Musashi, which used to be number one, and today I walked right in without queuing. That’s how it goes for any place that …
It rained all day, so I left my camera at home, and yet somehow I ended up traveling, eating well and making music too. Life is one long run of music, food and travel anyway, so maybe that was only natural. It…
Last week a friend came to visit Tokyo, and we went ahead with a one-day Tokyo gourmet trip. Neither of us is a big eater, so unlike some people we couldn’t manage 5-6 meals a day – we just had bre…
Pentax *istDS 85mm F1.4 The view of Chiba Port late at night.. A cute cat I met at Chiba Port.. It looks cute, but getting close is hard. Compared with dogs, which have shared the ups and downs of life with h…
Anyone who has seen Densha Otoko (Train Man) will know that Comiket was held this week at Big Sight in Odaiba. Honestly, I’m not really into doujinshi, but I went to the cosplay area to test out my newly…