A Yokohama trip in August 2023
I was only in Yokohama for a very short while, but I took all sorts of photos. Yokohama Station The weather was really lovely. Anker This brand seems to be doing pretty well in Japan these days. Chinatown T…
I was only in Yokohama for a very short while, but I took all sorts of photos. Yokohama Station The weather was really lovely. Anker This brand seems to be doing pretty well in Japan these days. Chinatown T…
Yokohama Chinatown has a huge number of Chinese restaurants, but apparently the closer to the centre a place is, the less its food can be counted on. A friend who lives in the area recommended Ippinkaku and th…
Mutekiro in Yokohama is a long-established restaurant, cafe and dessert shop all in one. Which is to say, if you ever came to hang out in Motomachi way back when, Mutekiro was already there then too. So it is …
I heard there was a good ramen shop over in Motomachi in Yokohama, so I went along. It is right near a bakery called O to U. This kind of place It is normally a very popular spot, but maybe because the day wa…
One of Yokohama’s local ramen varieties is something called sanmamen. In Japan “sanma” usually means Pacific saury, but the taste has nothing to do with saury at all. The sign The shop has a…
Yokohama has no shortage of famous ramen shops, but I heard about one that serves ramen from first thing in the morning, so off I went. This is the place Inside It was morning, so there were hardly any custo…
Sumire is the miso ramen shop that represents Hokkaido, and now they have opened a branch in Yokohama. There was simply no way I could skip it. This is the place.. It was a fair size, actually. The table Mis…
New Tantanmen is not the tantanmen we all know. Yokohama opened up to the outside world early on, so it developed its own food culture, which means there are noodles here you won’t find anywhere else. Ne…
I was walking through Motomachi in Yokohama when a curious sign caught my eye. Like this.. I could hardly believe my eyes.. so up the stairs I went.. The entrance Sumibi Baisen Coffee Mu — charcoal-roasted c…
Someone like me has so many restaurants left to try that I rarely go back to a place twice, but that is not so easy when I am with friends. If anything, we end up going somewhere we know will not disappoint. K…
O to U is a really popular spot, so I’d been before, and this time I dropped in once more. Here’s the place. The main street of Motomachi is lined with historic old favourites… and since thi…
Making the rounds of good restaurants is a hobby of mine, but some days I just walk into whatever catches my eye on the street. This was one of those days. A place like this Not a particularly delicious place…