What can I tell you? Riding around the city on summer nights is a great pleasure. In this instance, it was just the cruise home from work, but the lighting seemed conducive to snapping a shot of the mothership for prosperity. And after changing, more cruising ensued…eventually ending up a bit south of the river […]
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Suriya, Kodemmacho (スーリヤ)
A perfectly normal Indian restaurant…just not normal to be out in the middle of nowhere, Iwamotocho. The only things weirder than finding this place out here were that there were a bunch of Indian places in the neighborhood, and there were a bunch of white guys in this one. Seriously, there were eight customers and […]
Okamoto, Asakusa (岡本)
Full-screen If guts are your thing, this whole street is for you. It’s a string of little izakayas with tables on the street, cheap japanese bar food with a slight Korean slant, and a different special ‘beef stew’ at each location. The individual recipes feature varying degrees of nasty bits (if I was writing a […]
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Hanafusa, Tsukiji (はなふさ)
Try walking, or jogging, or cycling around this quiet part of Tsukiji – 7-chome, across Harumi Dori from the side entrance to the fish market. You’ll be struck by how old it is, with a village feel on the minor shopping street and a few dark alleys parallelling that. Each has a couple quaint old […]
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Ganko ramen, Takadanobaba (がんこ)
If you’re willing to make a good effort, and you’re a little relaxed about time, you can go all sorts of places for lunch. Like Baba, home of 100 ramen shops and various college girls in costume. What’s up, sailor? Walk up toward Waseda, going with the flow of kids on their way to school. […]
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Mumbai Bar, Kanda
Recently the sky is so blue it’s almost comical. Anyway. Food. “This place has been on the radar for months.” Repetitious, no? But true. It’s on the main street from whence you turn to get to all the places in the north of Kanda that are featured here daily. The bright exterior is a cut […]
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Daitetsu, Kanda (大鉄)
Japan’s construction philosophy is often described as ‘scrap and build’. You’d think that the narrow buildings and cramped neighborhoods would impede construction, but no…it just means they find ways to be careful. Here, a building is being torn out from between others, and a pint-sized backhoe is perched atop the rubble. But that’s not particularly […]
Kinariya Ramen, Jimbocho (きなり屋)
Pretty much hopeless to try to classify ramen in Tokyo, isn’t it? Maybe even if you venture out to other famous places the ramen also defines description? Surely in Hakata there’s no confusion, and pretty much everyone has Hakata ramen? Kinariya looks nice from the outside, if by ‘nice’ you mean ‘Gonna have some thick, […]
Matoi ramen, Jimbocho (まとい)
Do you think a little thing like pouring rain is going to stop lunch from happening? nnnnnnno, it’s not. It will produce some concessions though. If you go underground, you can can get from the office to the subway without seeing sky, and then you can take the train one stop north to Awajicho, which […]
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Sanshuya, Kanda ( 大衆割烹 三州屋)
Things are so hot in Tokyo at the moment that whole sections of street keep spontaneously combusting, forcing the fire department to work overtime racing to conflagrations for liquid refreshment. But it’s always cool as an uri up in Kanda, where this branch of the Sanshuya chain is dishing out tasty dishes. Hard to say […]