A Visit to Ueno Park
I went to Ueno Park over the weekend. Lunch was at Café Hibiki.. The lines were long everywhere, so we settled on a slightly quieter spot where we could wait for a table. I didn’t get a ph…
I went to Ueno Park over the weekend. Lunch was at Café Hibiki.. The lines were long everywhere, so we settled on a slightly quieter spot where we could wait for a table. I didn’t get a ph…
I drop by Arenmok in Ueno every now and then, mostly because of a personal connection. They recently opened a second branch in Asakusa, and the manager there is Park Cheol-hyeon (a.k.a. Tetsu), who is pretty w…
I had to have dinner in Ueno, so I searched Tabelog and a place called Daitoryo looked decent. When I got there, it turned out to be huge, yet it was packed with people and there was even a line. I waited in l…
On this trip I mostly went around to the places I really love. For dinner around Asakusa, Kurofunetei in Ueno is the best. The lotus at Shinobazu Pond in Ueno. It being the season, the view was spectacu…
There are a few places in Tokyo I really love, and one of them is Kurofunetei. Tokyo has plenty of more refined or more upscale Western-style restaurants, but for some reason this is the one that clicks with m…
Sharin, the tsukemen shop attached to Ueno Station, is a place I had passed by and noticed a few times before, but it was only recently that I found out it is a sister shop of Rokurinsha. Once I knew that, I c…
There are a few restaurants I can confidently recommend to anyone visiting Tokyo, and Kurofunetei, a yoshoku restaurant in Ueno, is one of them. I dropped by after work, and maybe because it was late, the plac…
In Iriya, not far from Ueno, there is a Korean-style Chinese restaurant. Given the prices, more than double what you would pay in Korea, there should be no reason to go.. but when you live in Japan, the cravin…
Aburasoba Tsubaki is an aburasoba specialist in Ueno. It is a spin-off of Chuka Soba Tsubaki, the well-known ramen shop. The front entrance It was late, but the place was packed, and with just one person wo…
Kurofunetei might just be the place with the longest line in Ueno on weekends. This time too, I started queuing an hour early and only just got in. That said, you can write your name down and wait somewhere el…
I left DisneySea after 10 pm and got to Ueno around 11. I had burned a serious amount of calories all day, so I figured I would grab a late-night bite before heading home. A quick search said a place called Ha…
With the Mauritshuis in the Netherlands closed for renovation, Tokyo got the chance to see Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, the legendary painting they call the Mona Lisa of the North. There was no w…