You’ve noticed how I got onto a Nihonbashi kick recently, right? I’ve been to 10 places in the Muromachi neighborhood (near Mitsukoshi, just northeast of bridge itself) in the last two weeks. This place is a bit intriguing, with a real old-fashioned atmosphere on the outside, and a lunch menu focused on our fried friend, […]
Month: April 2011
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Torishu, Ryogoku (鳥守)
Every place has something to offer. Sometimes it’s just a life lesson, like “You shouldn’t go to places this bad,” but this wasn’t one of those sometimes. After another hour of cycling on our Kita Senju round-trip extravaganza, what Torishu had to offer was chicken. I’m joking to humorous effect, of course. It offered so […]
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Tsukimikura, Kita Senju (月味座)
Must have been over 2 years ago I saw this place and mentally marked it as something worth trying. I don’t get to KSJ a lot, OK? On this trip, as soon as I saw it I remembered, and more rolling around didn’t produce any other place we wanted to go to as much. The […]
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Kaeru, Kitasenju (居酒屋 かえる)
‘Puerile’ is the word you’re looking for here. No, in fact, while we were eyeing this spot, the master of the shop was taking out some trash, saw us, and said “Oh, go ahead and park there.” As usual in Japan, flexible enforcement. After stumbling (rolling?) upon an entire kilometer of previously unexplored shotengai, it was an […]
Chigusa Dori, Kitasenju (千草通り、柳原)
In the middle of a positively epic bike ride (7 hours and 3 izakayas) we endured a long stretch riding along the river before cutting off to try to find Kita Senju. Strangely, the street we angled onto turned out to be canopied with cherry trees, which are just coming into bloom. And the neighborhood […]
Cafe Aimee Vibert, Nihonbashi
Hellz bellz, did everyone know about this new building except me? The new Coredo Muromachi tower is open, with three (little) floors of restaurants (more than the original Coredo, I think). Incidentally, I stand by my much maligned theory on the name of these buildings – while the ‘Core of Edo’ theory sounds nice, I […]