You wouldn’t believe what you can get done in a lunch hour if you work in Otemachi. Granted, no one’s checking my arrival times, so it’s OK to run over a few minutes when you need to get something done like today’s shopping trip. But if I told you I went to Tokyo station, took the […]
Daruma, Kiyosumi Shirakawa (だるま)
Weird stuff, my friends. As I was leaving work I realized that not only was I really hungry, but I was thinking “It’s good to be hungry. Maybe I’ll skip dinner.” That sort of thinking has got to stop, and since I needed to go to the rice store I decided to eat a bunch […]
Benihana Bekkan, Nihonbashi (紅花別館)
Ages ago, You came back from lunch, gave me a card, and said “This curry place is really spicy! It hurt!” I didn’t believe him, because Japanese people can’t handle spicy food. But I remembered the place, because it’s in a weird location where there isn’t much else (north side of Eitai Dori between Nihonbashi […]
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Kyomachiya, Shin Yurigaoka (京町家)
Here be dragons. The wild spaces of Kanagawa are inhabited by all manner of hulking buildings and commuting dwarves. Falling into a need to journey out here to meet someone is surely my punishment for raising an eyebrow at Common’s choice of dwelling (if you’ve forgotten, Glenn, that’s you. Let’s get together next year!) – […]
San Facon, Kagurazaka
As mentioned a few days ago, here’s the lunch at this slightly higher-end place in Kagurazaka (KGRZ, to the hip kids). Koala looks very prim demonstrating how to cross the street and enter the restaurant. Walking from Iidabashi B4 is your best bet since this is in the eastern corner of KGRZ. I like to […]
Lunch, Kawasaki
I see this view a lot. It’s right outside my computer room, so while I’ve been fabricating these little missives to you, I’ve been watching the progress of New Tokyo Tower, or the Sky Tree. It’s really getting there! I think at this point all that’s left is to erect the spire, the thin part at […]
Nagomi, Sendagi (和味)
It bears mention again – there are few neighborhoods better for an afternoon of exploration with someone than Nezu. It’s a place you don’t get tired of – you may have read about visits with Woodsy, McNoonan, and even by myself, twice. The long jog that finally tweaked my knees for the year was a couple […]
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Brasserie Nature, Funabashi (ＢＲＡＳＳＥＲＩＥ 菜厨瑠)
Boarding the Sobu line at Tokyo. People were backed up all the way across the platform (most of you have been here – it’s the same as the Narita Express platform), and the train was sardine-packed all the way out to Funabashi. I was traveling out to meet reader Rocky, who recently moved from Alabama […]
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Ore no Sora ramen, Takadanobaba (俺の空)
So this place is called ‘My Sky’, named after a comic book series. I prefer to think it’s called “My Emptiness” and is about the chef’s unquenchable need to deliver the perfect ramen. Or cook pigs. Or something. Thing is, I can sort of see where he’s coming from. At some points in my life, […]
Hirosaku, Shinbashi (ひろ作)
Baron Destructo. Deliberately ignoring the basic research that would remind us where this nickname came from (and he came pre-named; it’s not an EOITwJ thing), let’s just say it’s been in a year since his last visit to Japan. He’s maintained, errrr, contact, with things Japanese in the interim (sorry) and here we are again […]