This café opened during the Meiji era and has over 100 years of tradition. You can pick up some dango (mochi balls), daifuku (mochi with red bean paste) or m…

If you feel like you want to eat meat, but you’re tired of the regular yakiniku… Then, I recommend this little restaurant: Jingisukan Sakaba Tomoya! Here, yo…

At the entrance, there are sweets like Kuzumochi (kudzu starch cake) or Anmitsu (syrup covered red bean and fruits etc.) you can buy for souvenirs. They look…

There is a very popular Taiwanese restaurant at a two-minute walk from Meiji-Jingumae station. Want a healthy dessert? Chun Shui Tang is the place!

The specialties of the restaurant are the delicious Amami brown sugar shochu and the chicken broth Keihan (boiled rice with toppings soaked in soup and tea).

The producer of the restaurant is Mr. Morizumi, holder of the Michelin star chef title! Expect to see a long waiting line on a holiday, but you will be able …

Here you can enjoy the thick and syrupy miso ramen, especially popular among young people. The ramen they serve here is pretty substantial, but I often do se…

Satake, is a soba restaurant, especially popular among salary men. It is situated along the Koshu Kaido, only five minutes from the South Exit of Shinjuku st…

Sakura Suisan is located at a one-minute walk from Shinjuku Sanchome station. It is a seafood izakaya on the second basement level of a building.

“Genkitei” is a health food restaurant, supervised by Ecolo Cooking School that specializes in macrobiotic cuisine. It is a rare restaurant it Tokyo, where y…

Sushiro is a famous chain Kaiten-Zushi restaurant, one of the most popular ones amongst other 100-yen Kaiten-Zushi places. I sit at the counter and watch as …

At a ten-minute walk from Oshiage station, by the Jikken-hashi Street, there is a Fujisan (Mount Fuji) antenna shop, called “Fujisan Deli”. Not many places c…

“Hokusai Sabou” is a café that opened in 2003. Of the four consecutive houses, Hokusai Sabou is the one that has the most eye-catching exterior.

Asadori is specialized in Kama-meshi and Skewers. Kame-meshi is a dish which has rice, meat, and vegetables boiled together in a small pot. In Japan people o…

Tokyo has many many okonomiyaki restaurants. However, “negiyaki”, negi leek-filled okonomiyaki, is quite hard to find, even in these places.The standard seas…