The Banquet Food on a Yakatabune in Odaiba, Tokyo
Since it was food served on a boat, I didn’t expect much at first, but the dishes turned out to be pretty high-end. (Had I known it would be this good, I might have skipped the Kitakata ramen…) Sas…
Since it was food served on a boat, I didn’t expect much at first, but the dishes turned out to be pretty high-end. (Had I known it would be this good, I might have skipped the Kitakata ramen…) Sas…
These are photos I took on a yakatabune, the highlight of this Tokyo trip. In Odaiba you can see boats hung with lanterns floating on Tokyo Bay, and that is exactly what this is. A shot of central Tokyo An ex…
Honestly, I didn’t want to come to such a boring place.. but it was a group tour, so I had no choice.. Since I was here anyway, I took a few photos. They don’t let you inside the Imperial Palace. S…
There are quite a few nice parks inside Tokyo. It’s a bit like how Seoul has the Han River banks, Cheonggyecheon or Yangjaecheon. But Yoyogi Park connects straight onto Harajuku and Shibuya, so it’…
I went to Tokyo Tower, which it’s no exaggeration to call the most famous sightseeing spot in Tokyo. It was daytime and the sky was gloomy, so there wasn’t much to see. So I didn’t bother goi…
Senso-ji in Asakusa, which I visited on this Tokyo trip. Back when I lived near Tokyo I never once felt like going, but somehow I ended up there this time. Well… since I was there anyway, might as well t…
I was in Tokyo for the first time in a while, and a friend said there was a decent neighborhood sushi place near his home and that we should go. This is the owner. He’s a little shy. He’s making t…
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 …
I think I’ve said before that there really isn’t much to eat in Shibuya. Most places target dating couples or young people who aren’t fussy about food, so it’s mostly fast-food chains a…
There was an exhibition in Odaiba, so I went on a business trip to Tokyo. Since it was for work I didn’t get many chances to take photos, but here are a few. Mr. Kaspersky, flown in from Russia He’…
Apparently the latest trend in Japanese ramen is collaboration. Two famous ramen shops, Kukai and Kamado, have teamed up and opened a ramen shop in Shibuya. Funnily enough, this one shop sells the menus of bot…
I went to Steak House Hama, a teppan steak specialist that’s famous even in Tokyo. It turns out it’s inside a place in Meguro called Gajoen, so while I was there I had a look around Gajoen too. The…