Heavens. Just wandering around looking for a restaurant, I saw a little green sign with a guitar. It turned out that if you go into the nondescript little office building, the second floor is half taken up with one of the best guitar stores I’ve been to in Japan. Mostly acoustic…aside from the steels (lap, […]
Month: June 2010
Yamato Tonkatsu, Kanda (大和)
This whole 大和 thing, I don’t quite get it. It means something like ‘Japanese spirit’, that’s clear, but is there a difference between reading it ‘daiwa’ and ‘yamato’? One amusing thing is that my company has a direct competitor that uses the first reading. In what I presume was a bid to show national pride, […]
Shonosuke Sweets, Kanda (庄之助、淡路町)
Small sushi lunches just don’t fill a guy up, especially not one with bulging…err, muscles, like me. But I really do need to lose some weight, eh, and managed to avoid eating anything too bad after lunch. Still, I knew there was this quaint old sweet shop… I first saw Shonosuke when I went to […]
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Isohana, Kanda (磯はな、司町)
Kanda…where magic happens. Went up to the same little alley I mentioned in the linked post – there were two very worthwhile places there. The better looking, whose offering I don’t really understand (language issues) but whose style I admire…is closed on Wednesdays. That means that after the requisite walk-around-to-confirm, I ended up back across […]