Other treats

Ahhh, here we go. Really winding down now. I dropped someone off at the train station just like always, but couldn’t engage in my customary multi-hour bike ride around Tokyo – it was moving day. I lived in that apartment for 7 years, which is the longest I’ve ever lived anywhere, except my parents’ house, […]

You know how much I like my powers of observation, right? I always maintained I could spot good places from half a mile away in the dark. As a second place for this evening, I realized that we were just around the corner from a really cool-looking place that I’d been eyeing for years but […]

On the road again…this time taking the train down to Shibuya to celebrate a last night as a resident of Tokyo before taking up residence at the New Otani. I still can’t believe I stayed at the New Otani. You’d also think this was the Tozai line, because almost every train trip I’ve taken in […]

A final joke on my Japanese capabilities, which were mostly a joke anyway, along with a fond farewell to this street leading to Hachiman Bashi, and an even fonder farewell to standing bars that open in the afternoon and getting drunk therein. My last evening in Monzen Nakacho, and I spent it in Shibuya with […]

‘Ganso’ is a funny concept. I think it means something like ‘the original’ or ‘the inventor’. Maybe ‘authentic’ would be better, but more detailed reading certainly shows that this place claims to have invented curry bread. For years I thought it was just an undistinguished bakery a few towns up from mine, but when someone […]