Sometimes I go on about how much you can get done in an hour when you work somewhere as convenient as Otemachi, but this is really it – for today’s lunch, in 45 minutes I walked through Tokyo station, bought train vouchers (from a ticket shop, major routes are 7-8% cheaper as long as it’s non-holiday […]
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Haruno, Omotesando (はるの)
Omotesando dining has always presents problems – everyone feels like there are tons of great restaurants mixed with the fancy shopping, but it’s not true. Today in the middle of a walk we wandered into this place; it turned out to be ‘healthy dining’, but not in a bad way, in a stylish room with […]
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Gonroku ramen, Morishita (ごんろく)
Ah, you were expecting…something other than noodles? Well, I expected not to eat ‘year end soba’, so I made up for it by eating ramen all 5 days leading up to the new year. Here’s #3. It’s a tsukemen place that I jog by a lot. Even early in the morning, it smells good out […]
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Yanakasou ramen, Hirai (やなか草)
Another day off, another long bike ride with noodles in the middle (spoiler alert: the next two days are going to look the same). This time was up to Hirai, a northeastern neighborhood that has a highly-rated French restaurant I wanted to see in person. It’s a bit odd to go up there by bike, […]
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Tengen ramen, Machiya (天元)
Vacation. Ooooh, how we love it. For some reason it didn’t feel like vacation started until today; I think there was just too much excitement in the lead-up to Christmas. So don’t laugh, but faced with nothing to do for a day, what did I do? 3+ hours of exploring northeast Tokyo, with a lunch […]
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Fukuchan Ramen, Tsukiji
Fuku-chaaaaaan! Over the summer I started running more seriously again (I think I can now declare that I’ve stopped again; it’s been weeks. My knees almost feel normal.). While doing my Tsukiji route, I would go past Fukuchan, across Harumi Dori from the Tsukiji market. I was running at night, and the huge red neon […]
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North Side Cafe, Shimo Kitazawa
An afternoon of walking Shimokita. Believe it or not, this was outside a music store. It sounds positively filthy, doesn’t it? In a way that’s dirty and yet mysterious, like some kink you’ve never heard of. Indeed. This is not where we ate dinner, but that’s not the subject of this post. The subject is […]
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Kawamura soba, Yanaka (川むら)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]