Shojin Ryori in Hamamatsu, and a Few Other Things
I had a get-together in Hamamatsu, and we visited a temple to eat shojin ryori, Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. It was just before the cherry blossoms bloomed. Shojin ryori Everything was made fro…
I had a get-together in Hamamatsu, and we visited a temple to eat shojin ryori, Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. It was just before the cherry blossoms bloomed. Shojin ryori Everything was made fro…
Hamamatsu is a city roughly halfway between Tokyo and Osaka. I was there for about a week on business. Here are some photos I took while moving around. Train station It’s the countryside, so the …
Whenever I’m wandering around Tokyo and pass a liquor shop, I tend to step inside and check what prices are like. Force of habit. All sorts of booze Maker’s Mark Cask Strength, spott…
On this trip I barely made it to any proper restaurants. It was either convenience stores or food courts. Good eating is something you enjoy when you have the breathing room; put me in an extreme situation and…
On this trip I ended up relying on convenience stores a lot, for all sorts of reasons. It was a business trip rather than a holiday, and there was simply too much to do. Drinks Suntory had a new Premiu…
On this trip I spent almost all my time in Odaiba, Tokyo. Here are some photos I took while walking around. The SOHO office building It’s an office building in Odaiba, and the design is really st…
I heard that the No. 1 tonkatsu place on Tabelog had opened in Takadanobaba, so I went to check it out. I thought I’d been to just about every famous tonkatsu restaurant, but I had no idea a place like t…
Vinosity is great value for money, but the problem, if you can call it that, is that it’s always packed. I’d booked for 8, and I think we actually got going around 8:30. Otoshi, the little s…
I have a preconception about hotel restaurants – the food is ordinary and the prices are steep – but if you use them wisely they seem fine. This time I went to the tempura restaurant in the basemen…
Yanesen refers to Yanaka, Nezu and Sendagi, the neighborhoods near Ueno and Komagome. It’s one of Tokyo’s old shitamachi districts and has been getting really popular lately. I’d stumbled int…
I heard a rumor that an unusual ramen shop had opened in Kasuga, so I went to check it out. Kasuga is the area around Tokyo Dome. The entrance There’s a torpedo mounted above the door. “Gyo…
A dessert cafe called Un Grain has opened in Aoyama. The pastry chef trained at Au Bon Vieux Temps, so my expectations were high. The entrance The interior is truly a work of art. Cakes They ar…