Now it can be told, the sad tale of my last night on the town. More an afternoon, really. Any day that starts with ice cream for lunch and finishes by 8 at the 3rd restaurant deserves its own special naming convention. Big Bird is connected in convoluted and barely legal ways to the shady […]
Kita Senju
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Tokudawara, Kita Senju (徳多和良)
Really, Tabelog readers? Tokyo’s 6th best izakaya is a standing place in Kita Senju? Might as well find out (especially since we went to #2, 3, 4 and 5 in the last few weeks. Some were repeats. I disagree about #1, but it’s mostly an illustration of the broadness of the category.). We rolled up […]
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Kikuya, Kita Senju (菊や)
I used to ride my bike along the Arakawa almost every morning, and at some point I read about this place. Then it started bugging me to know that it was just over the levee. And like so many of these places, I finally gave in and found the time to go. ‘Found the time’ […]
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Obana, Minami Senju (尾花)
Tokyo is on the march. Walking through this old, beat little part of Minami Senju on dead hot, overcast August days. Riding bikes, converging from all directions. To wait in line. In the rain. In a LOT of rain. Actually, my fault entirely, we arrived only 25 minutes before opening time. That meant we were […]
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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 […]
Sakaiya Food Hall, Hikifune (サカイ食堂,曳舟)
Hoodwinked, cruelly tricked, and disgusted. And maybe a little proud. If you’re a foreigner, and you like to say “I can eat anything”, there’s one hurdle that may be too far, and you may just have to be pressured into hurdling that hurdle with cheap booze and fast conversation. Unfortunately, all that’s on the other […]
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Darts Bar Jam, Kita Senju
Our obsessive tendencies continue with this post on a tiny, dark, 3rd-floor darts bar in Kita Senju. However if you’ve been for a burger at Sunny Diner (and you should go, you really should), and afterward you want to play darts and have a drink and do some quiet contemplation of how great the burger […]
Sunny Diner, Kita Senju
I went to Kita Senju, Sharon, to buy myself some cheap ties. It’s a sort of personal-improvement project. For the next period, still to be determined but at least 4 weeks, I’m wearing nothing but ties that I would never have considered wearing 2 weeks ago. Since these are items that I expect to go […]