Ramen Fujimaru in Akabane
This is the place where I couldn’t get proper photos last time because I didn’t have my DSLR with me. So I went back. Here’s the shop. Just like last time, I waited 30 minutes to get in. Tod…
This is the place where I couldn’t get proper photos last time because I didn’t have my DSLR with me. So I went back. Here’s the shop. Just like last time, I waited 30 minutes to get in. Tod…
After a wild night in Ginza, I didn’t feel like just heading home, so I came all the way to Tsukiji for a bite. This time I tried Inoue, supposedly the most famous place in the neighborhood. Inoue is a l…
We’d run out of rice at home, so I headed out to grab something to eat. Wandering around the neighborhood, I spotted a place with a line outside, and even though I’d never seen the name before, cur…
Today I had some business at Waseda University, so I headed over there. The area around Takadanobaba Station, in front of Waseda University, is famous as a place where countless well-known ramen shops compete …
I couldn’t be bothered to cook, so I was thinking of eating out, and decided to try a ramen shop in Ikebukuro that a friend had recommended to me a while back as being really good. It’s Kissui, a s…
Nantsuttei, a ramen shop famous in Kanagawa Prefecture just south of Tokyo, opened in Ikebukuro at the end of last year. Considering that Ikebukuro is effectively the fiercest ramen battleground in Japan, that…
It’s really warmed up lately. Mornings and evenings are still a bit chilly, but the midday sun is warm enough that it’s practically spring. On a day like this I just couldn’t stay home, so I …
Lately I’ve been meeting people out and about more and more. Is that a good thing? I’ve got a bit of a hikikomori streak in me, you see… Well, I might as well use these chances to hunt down t…
Even though I live in Tokyo, I don’t get to Ginza all that often. These days there are sub-centres like Roppongi Hills, Shiodome and the Marunouchi Building that easily rival the old downtown, so there&#…
Japanese ramen comes in so many styles, and there are so many famous shops, that it’s hard to say any one place is the best. Around the New Year, TV shows and magazines all rush to publish their rankings…
Tokyo’s weather hasn’t been its usual self this year. Normally we get about three months of clear, dry days, but this year it’s snowed a lot and it’s been pretty chilly. So I really did…
There was a place I really wanted to try whenever I got to Asakusa, famous for Senso-ji: Namiki Yabu Soba, which has made quite a name for itself in Tokyo for its soba. I’d been in the neighborhood once …