Nanamaru Center, a ramen shop in Kosai
Kosai City sits right next to Hamamatsu City, and just beyond that is Toyohashi in Aichi Prefecture. So while it is technically a city in Shizuoka, you could say it is closer to Aichi. I spotted a ramen shop b…
Kosai City sits right next to Hamamatsu City, and just beyond that is Toyohashi in Aichi Prefecture. So while it is technically a city in Shizuoka, you could say it is closer to Aichi. I spotted a ramen shop b…
Asakusaken is a well-known ramen shop in Hamamatsu. The place It is not the easiest place to get to, yet it is always full of people. Out in rural Japan everyone gets around by car, so I suspect that as long …
Sushiro is, to put it plainly, a very ordinary conveyor-belt sushi chain. It is just a chain, so I figured we could turn up whenever and be fine – which was naive, because when we got there the queue was…
Tenkin is a place in downtown Hamamatsu famous for its tendon. The line is long whenever you go, and when a place out in the provinces has people queuing, I trust it even more than the ones people line up for …
Came out to a teishoku place over the weekend for a meal. This is the menu It’s a diner that caters to the local uncles, so the prices run about this much. It’s been around a long time, so it̵…
Asashio is a ryokan and restaurant with real history and tradition behind it. Apparently it gets used for banquets a lot too. Ieyasu and Naotora They’ve been turned into characters and you see them used…
Turns out there’s a curry shop in Gasan that made it into the Blue Ribbon.. A place like this.. Curry, in a spot this out of the way? That was my first thought, but I went and gave it a try.. Water The…
These days getting a reservation at a sushi restaurant is like plucking a star out of the sky, and with the number of sushi places exploding, the competition is fierce too. I do want to eat something good, but…
I felt like having a glass of sake at a Japanese restaurant with private rooms in Gasan, and it turned out Shinseondo was the only place around.. Tsukemono Salad Filefish liver Can’t believe they brin…
Bunnoji in Sinnonhyeon was already famous around here long before I ever got around to writing about it. There just aren’t many places near Gangnam Station doing proper Japanese food. Otoshi Clean and c…
Tora Restaurant, right by Hakdong Station, is a Japanese place built mainly around rice bowls. A place like this.. The sign inside says Hosikdang, so I assumed that was the name, but apparently the place is c…
A friend of mine told me about a place in Ginza that does a great hamburg steak, so off I went. For the record, I’m no gourmet.. The place I’ve spent plenty of time in Ginza, but I had no idea a p…