Rokurinsha at Tokyo Station
By the time I got back to Tokyo it was already night. Wondering where to go and what to eat, I headed to Rokurinsha, the ramen shop in Tokyo Station. A view of Nakadori What a dazzling night street. A view …
By the time I got back to Tokyo it was already night. Wondering where to go and what to eat, I headed to Rokurinsha, the ramen shop in Tokyo Station. A view of Nakadori What a dazzling night street. A view …
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I got to the airport with plenty of time to spare, so I decided to make dinner a bowl of ramen. Ideally I’d have eaten in central Tokyo, but I just couldn’t be bothered with anything. Besides, a sh…
I’m here on a trip to Tokyo, and somehow I just can’t find the time to sit down to a proper bowl of ramen. I got back late at night this day too, and since it looked like I’d have even less t…
I was trying to decide what to have for lunch when I heard about a newly opened ramen shop. The tamago kake gohan looked good, so I went to check it out. Tamago kake gohan The egg is small, but good eggs te…
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I’d just arrived in Fukuoka and had drunk a bit too much the night before, so breakfast obviously had to be tonkotsu ramen. After some thought about where to go, I headed to the Ichiran in Nakasu-Kawabat…