
The plastic food in restaurant windows really didn't look all that good to me. But it was useful since I can't read Japanese. I did ...
The plastic food in restaurant windows really didn't look all that good to me. But it was useful since I can't read Japanese. I did ...
Haruki Murakami's new book 1Q84 conforms to his normal genre: magical realism. It's also very long: 925 pages, described as a doors...
For dinner we found a Wagyu beef restaurant not far from the guest house where we are staying. The extremely marbled and tender beef is slic...
We sat at the sushi bar in a tiny restaurant while this chef made us sushi -- he bought this amazing piece of tuna at the Tsukuji market thi...
In the temple grounds at Asakusa we passed a number of food stalls, with many varied types of food that people could eat as they walked. Lat...
After a water-taxi ride on the Sumida River we arrived at Asakusa, a huge shopping district surrounding a temple and pagoda. It was time for...
In Ueno Park we found a traditional Japanese restaurant named Insho-tei (or Innsyoutei). we ate there this afternoon, after viewing the spec...
For lunch today, I had a bowl of ramen noodles, as described on the sign above (click on it to enlarge). At the counter in the noodle shop I...
This is Japan, where the luxury food for a really high quality banquet is French. In fact, we have been her 2 days without having any Japane...