Oginoya inside Karuizawa Station
Oginoya is the place in Karuizawa famous for kamameshi, rice steamed and served in its own little clay pot, and they have branches all over. There’s one in Tokyo too.. anyway, since we’d been out a…
Oginoya is the place in Karuizawa famous for kamameshi, rice steamed and served in its own little clay pot, and they have branches all over. There’s one in Tokyo too.. anyway, since we’d been out a…
Flatbreadz has to count as one of Karuizawa’s specialties too. Everything is made with local wagyu and vegetables and bread from Asanoya, after all. I really like that kind of concept. When you travel so…
The shopping mall in Karuizawa has been redone, and a lot of good places to eat have moved in. Coming back to Karuizawa after a long time, there was shopping, there was good food, the scenery was lovely and so…
Maybe because Japan has so many mountains, it has plenty of highlands too. Head up into the highlands and the scenery is somehow different, and with ranches around, the local ingredients are a bit different as…
I had something to pick up at IKEA Funabashi, so I dropped by over the weekend. While wondering what to have for lunch, I ended up in line at a ramen shop in LaLaport. The kitchen Aoba is a famous shop in Nak…
Tante Marie built its name on camembert cheese, and it turns out the main shop is in the Oazo building in Marunouchi. The front entrance The mood is pretty classic. Photos inside aren’t allowed, so I on…
I knew that a branch of Tomita, the famous shop in Matsudo, Chiba, had opened near Tokyo Station, but it was only when I watched the Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san TV special that I found out this branch recreates …
A great burger place has come to Harajuku all the way from the States. Though from the name alone you’d think it was Japanese.. some kind of reverse import, maybe.. The front Stylish, comfortable, all o…
Something rather nice opened near the office. There’s a tendon specialist called Mitsumura in Toranomon, and apparently this place was spun off from it. It looks like this.. Being a new shop, it’s…
There’s a dessert shop on the ground floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel, and it’s probably the place with the most creative desserts in all of Tokyo. The entrance They sell bread and all sorts o…
I’d known for ages that Taimeiken, the yoshoku (Western-style) restaurant in Nihonbashi, serves a good shoyu ramen, but what actually got me to go was seeing it in Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles. ItR…
Yoyogi-Uehara is a little way off from Yoyogi-Hachiman, but you could pretty much call them next door to each other. I’d heard there was a well-known bagel shop in Uehara, so I went. It’s a small p…