Cherry Blossom Viewing by Day
Today (well, actually yesterday) was the best day to see the cherry blossoms in Tokyo. Well… the day before was probably good too, but that wasn’t a day off… After a late breakfast I slung my…
Today (well, actually yesterday) was the best day to see the cherry blossoms in Tokyo. Well… the day before was probably good too, but that wasn’t a day off… After a late breakfast I slung my…
Maywa Denki is an art performance band that’s also a company, and they’re active internationally. Back home in Korea they’re a little known too, as the company that makes seemingly useless to…
This is the University of Tokyo, which I wandered into after getting lost on my way from Kanda to Ueno Park. I usually don’t rely on maps and just find my way by feel, but when it’s cloudy or dark …
Somehow I ended up hitting both a top-class soba shop and a top-class ramen shop in Tokyo on the same day. The details as we go through the photos.. For lunch I went to Kanda Yabu Soba. I head to Kanda regula…
*ist DS + 35mm f/2.0 No retouching, just resized At Yoyogi Park… …
I went to Hiro, a famous Italian restaurant that competes for the number one or two spot even in Tokyo. It’s in the basement of a building right in the middle of a residential area, so it’s a litt…
I finally went to Shinjuku Gen, the ramen shop yepok strongly recommended to me a while ago. It’s a Hokkaido-style ramen shop. It had moved from its original spot, so I had a bit of trouble finding it, b…
Even after buying a book on Tokyo’s good eats and flipping through it, Shibuya doesn’t really have many places worth going to. As befits a young people’s neighborhood, most of the famous spot…
Ginza, glittering with luxury brands and upscale department stores, and Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo’s kitchen, couldn’t be more different in image, but in reality they’re very close to each ot…
Besides the anpan some people call “Lee Byung-chul bread” (supposedly a favourite of the Samsung founder), Ginza Kimuraya sells loads of different breads. One of them is this castella. There’…
Taishoken is a famous ramen shop that’s been in business for 40 years, tucked away in a corner of Ikebukuro. Apparently it’s No. 1 in the Ikebukuro ramen rankings.. ^_^; Unusually, this place is on…
On day two in Ueno, shop after shop let me down. Maybe they were all on holiday… A whole bunch of Ueno’s famous places were closed at the same time. Futaba, Horaiya, Ueno Yabu Soba, Rengyokuan and …