Yeah, yeah, another visit to Yokohama. Y’know, I’m getting to like it. This was such a great day despite the rain, and it all started at the 456 Saikan. But first, a word from our sponsor…if we’re sponsored by walking-around-taking-stealth-shots-of-people-and-cats. Now back to our regularly-scheduled programming. This was very near the last place I had […]
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Hachimaki, Jinbocho (はちまき)
AaaaaaaI dunno, I just ended up wandering around a lot today. I tried to have an impromptu lunch with Peacock, who was busy (‘crunching’ is the term of art for ‘being busy’, incidentally. It has a sort of bones-and-flesh ring to it, don’t you think?). In his absence I still walked all the way up […]
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Soi Thong Lor, Yaesu
It’s always weird when it turns out that a place I’ve been eyeing for a while is actually a place that someone else has been to. Repeatedly. When we got to this place, Ding said it was a favorite of someone on his team, and thus an occasional destination when they felt like walking. Welcome […]
Gyoza Stadium, Ikebukuro
Namja? Nanja? This place came to me through several sources, and was the cause of some discord before eventually resulting in a fun visit. A fun and weird visit. And tiring. I felt old (fortunately it wasn’t just me that felt tired and confused by the time we left, so maybe it’s not age. Yet.). […]
- Otemachi
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Taihei, Otemachi
In the basement of the new(ish) JA building, this is a tolerable Thai place that I think opened recently – not in the initial batch of places that opened at the same time as the building, at any rate. They have nice lunch sets spanning the usual Thai lunch choices. Red and green curry for […]
Bistro Lugdunum, Kagurazaka
Probably more than a year has gone by since I started thinking that Bistro Lugdunum looked like the best bistro in Kagurazaka – which any French person in Tokyo will tell you is saying something. Since the French School is nearby, various French things have congregated there for years, and there’s a higher concentration of […]
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Gassan, Hatchobori (月山)
My work dinner finished early – awfully early, in fact, since the guest of honor had a separate dinner plan that we didn’t know about. That left me mildly fed and, having already written off the evening, not in the mood to go home. Naturally that led to a random cruise around some odd neighborhoods, […]
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Fish Research Center, Shinbashi (魚研究所)
Several weeks or months ago, coming home from a particularly disastrous meeting (this one, but I’m sort of a gentleman sometimes so I didn’t mention the disastrous aspects in the original post), I was so disgruntled that I got off the train and walked around Shinbashi. It always seemed like a grubby, seedy area for […]
Fukumen Ramen, Jinbocho (覆面)
mmmm? mmmm!? mmm hmm. mmmm! MMMM!!!! !!!m!MM!!M!!M!MM!!!!!! Fly~~~ me to tha moooooon… [January 12, 2011: At the risk of ruining the purity and impact of this post, let me discuss the membership policy here. In theory it’s members only, but I believe that’s only applied at weekday dinners. On the other hand, I first went […]
Mikura, Atami (海蔵、熱海)
Woo hoo, weekend away. It’s been some time, eh? Atami, at the head of the Izu penninsula, is called the ‘Monaco of Japan’. Really, my colleague tried to convince me of this. I laughed at the time, then I went there…and I still think it’s funny. Sure there are dramatic hills falling down to a […]