Hakushu Distillery, Yamanashi
Deep in the mountains of Yamanashi, a prefecture relatively close to Tokyo, sits the Hakushu Distillery. It takes about four hours by train, and after years of telling myself I should go someday, I finally mad…
Deep in the mountains of Yamanashi, a prefecture relatively close to Tokyo, sits the Hakushu Distillery. It takes about four hours by train, and after years of telling myself I should go someday, I finally mad…
I heard there was a restaurant popular with the locals in Oshiage, where the Tokyo Skytree stands, so I went to check it out. Udon and Kyushu cuisine are the mainstays here. The front entrance Lunch is said…
The Midtown boom seems to have died down a bit, but the great shops inside are still there. Among them, Jean-Paul Hévin is famous for its strict temperature control and tends to limit entry quite tightly, but …
Acqua Pazza, a restaurant in Hiroo, is a place with a really nice feel. Of all the restaurants in Tokyo, it is one that stayed in my memory for a long time after my visit, so I took this chance to go back. A …
Near Asakusa, at Azumabashi, there is an izakaya called Yorozuya that serves an eclectic menu built on Western-style food. “Yorozu” means “everything,” so the name means a shop that has…
Every now and then I get a craving for spicy tantanmen. It must be that nutty, spicy broth. I doubt you can find much soup in this style back in Korea. Tantanmen A standard tantanmen. Today I also ordered k…
I went back to Matador, the famous gyukotsu (beef bone) ramen shop. This time I noticed they had opened a miso ramen shop as well, and I was curious what it would taste like. But I was after the shoyu, so I li…
Hommage, the popular French restaurant in Asakusa, is a place I visited a few years ago, and I had a fantastic meal back then too. They recently renovated and turned it into an even more stylish restaurant, so…
La Bettola da Ochiai in Ginza offers great value for money, and despite that, reservations are not that hard to get. It used to be legendary for its popularity; they say it is not quite at that level anymore, …
There is a yakitori shop about 20 meters from Tawaramachi Station. I am not sure whether they do lunch, but it looked pretty tasty every time I passed by, so I got a few skewers to go, took them home and tried…
There was plenty I wanted to buy at the Ashibinaa outlet mall, but it is a small place, and after about two hours there is nothing left to see. Looking around for sights nearby, I heard there was a Peace Memor…
The Ashibinaa Outlet Mall in Okinawa is near the airport. It was right before heading home anyway, and going somewhere far from the airport did not make much sense, so I headed to the outlet. Roughly what it …