Jikaseimen Ito, Asakusa
After our first lunch it felt like a shame to just head home, so we dropped by Ito for a light bowl of ramen. But somehow I have no photo of the ramen itself.. For the details, see Mareunbi’s Brunch post…
After our first lunch it felt like a shame to just head home, so we dropped by Ito for a light bowl of ramen. But somehow I have no photo of the ramen itself.. For the details, see Mareunbi’s Brunch post…
There was once a tempura specialist called Uma in Hongdae. It was a sister shop of Genji, a well-known Japanese restaurant in the Hongdae area, and it had a good reputation, but sadly it closed down.. The peop…
Kanemasu, a standing-only izakaya, is just across the bridge from Tsukiji, in the opposite direction from Ginza. Japan has plenty of places with lines, but I do not think I have ever seen one this extreme. The…
On my last trip I went to Kagari, the famous ramen shop in Ginza, and this time the route worked out so well that I dropped by Mugi to Olive. It sits right on the way if you head straight from BiG GINZA toward…
Tokyo is a city with a deep history, so every neighborhood has at least one long-established favorite. This place is one of them. The sign It is a bit of a walk from Hamamatsucho Station and not easy t…
Gatten, which has branches all over Asakusa, is a neighborhood yakitori joint. I would not exactly call it a top spot, but you can eat and drink happily for about 2,000 yen a head, so it holds its own. …
In May 2015 I had work in Tokyo, so I went over a weekend. It was a short trip and I was wandering around on my own, so I did not make it to any great restaurants. tri-R Shibatani is my favourite bakery…
Inaniwa Yosuke is a well-known inaniwa udon house from Japan. In Korea, a soba or udon shop brings to mind a noodle specialist, but in Japan a lot of them are actually izakaya. You have drinks with a variety o…
On this Tokyo trip I have been going mostly around restaurants I had long wanted to try. The reason is that I have no friend to go restaurant-hopping with. At a place I know well I can just eat what I want and…
On this trip I put a ramen shop back on the itinerary for the first time in a while. Because it is delicious, obviously! And also because it is an easy place to go alone. A few years ago I did a big tour of To…
Kushikatsu Daruma is a famous kushikatsu joint from Osaka. Kushikatsu is B-class gourmet food to begin with, so when I lived in Japan I never paid it much attention, but the longer I live in Korea the more I g…
I do not go to izakaya in Korea very often, but somehow I ended up going to the same place twice in a row. It is a place called Kaisen near the Express Bus Terminal, and I hear it has been getting popular late…