Le Pristine Café Tokyo @ Toranomon Hills
Business lunch for a relatively large group and we picked a nearby lunch spot that served Italian food.
Tag: Japan
Ransen 藍泉 @ Tokyo (2025)
I have walked past it many times without knowing what cuisine it serves. I would now put it as oneContinue Reading
Hassan 八仙 @ Akihabara
Tonight we went to an Akihabara restaurant that specialised in nodoguro with excellent freshness by direct delivery from Itoigawa, NiigataContinue Reading
Yatagarasu やたがらす@ Nara
A fantastic chicken restaurant featuring fresh, morning-caught chicken called Yamato Nikudori, local chicken from Nara Prefecture
Isshin Izakaya 一心 @ Tokyo
This is not the same Isshin that I love so much. According to this Isshin, which is a block awayContinue Reading
Gochikura Hoten @ Kobe
What shall we eat in Kobe? Kobe beef, of course!
Utsunomiya Minmin 宇都宮みんみん@ Miyamirai
Utsunomiya 宇都宮 is famous for gyozas. We were in the city for a meeting and came too early, so weContinue Reading
Kyoto Nijo Castle 二条城
Nijo Castle, or Nijōjō 二条城, was built in 1603 as the Kyoto residence of Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康, the first shogunContinue Reading
Kuroza Akatsukirou 黒座暁樓 @ Akasaka (2025)
In Japan, Doyo no Ushi no Hi (lit. “Day of the Ox of the end of Summer”), aka Unagi Day,Continue Reading
Kyoto Ginkakuji 銀閣寺
Ginkakuji 銀閣寺, aka Silver Pavilion, is a Zen temple along Kyoto’s eastern mountains (Higashiyama). In 1482, shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa 足利義政Continue Reading