I guess you don't want a box of mikans......... !


Pickles, gives great advice........I had a relation come and visit and all he would eat was fast food! At least I got him interested in the bread shops, and MOS !

Be sure to dial in a 3-8 hr. wait on the days when they have these.

Only in Edo would anyone wait 3-8 hours to eat at Yoshinoya.

Try 2-3 hrs for Cold Stone ice cream @ RH.

Touche......LOL , my memories of RH are quite foggy, a giant spider comes to mind, then entering a bar...........and then it was just me and the Neowash becoming friendly.....

RH, where Heartland becomes Heartburn..

Yakitori is the answer. Actually it doesn't matter what the question is, yakitori is still the answer. Yakitori and a nice cold mug of beer. Aaaaahhhhh. ^

Oh, so that was why there was such a big queue at the Yokohama branch (under the Landmark Tower).

After being fed sushi at several upscale hotels in Yokohama as part of some pretty good keiseki menus (and a botched French/Japanese fusion attempt at the Pan Pacific), as well as on a tatami floored boat, I started to think that perhaps I didn't like sushi very much after all.

And then on my last evening, in the last hour of what turned out to be 6 hours of free time out of a 10 day trip, my father-in-law took me to a sushi restaurant in Azabu-Juban.

Glorious! Sheer heaven. I couldn't stop hugging myself with pleasure at each new mouthfull. (The sake I had with it translated as 'bottomless' and was a dry one from Niigata, served cold in a segment of fresh green bamboo). The yuzu tinged tsukemono was wonderful, even the green tea at the end was excellent.

And I'd been all ready to decline the invitation...

Perhaps you could leave your wife in bed early one morning and get yourself to Tsukiji fish market. Find the longest queue outside the small sushi restaurants and join it. Time it right and she may not even notice you've gone.

Name! A name! The peanut gallery wants a name! And a map, if it is hard to find. Don't be coy.

All I have is a meishi in Kanji

However, my code breaking skills have resulted in this:

http://jin3.jp/kameiten2-2/sushigin.htm

Map here: http://www.azabujuban.or.jp/shop_map.../5203_map.html

It's the Sushi Gin

The sake I drank is called 'Sokonuke'.　底ぬけ

While I'm sure you've had better, Pickles, Akaoni (an izakaya in Sangenjaya) has very good sashimi. I was a bit taken aback the first time I called to make a reservation (which you need to do) and was asked, after I gave the number of people in my party, "And what would you like to do about sashimi?" If you pre-order, you get a slightly better selection. I'd recommend doing ichi-nin-mae for every 2 people in your party if you'd like to eat anything else.

Naruhodo. I notice that right in the middle of their home page it says:
最近はよく外国人の方が見えます. I don't know if that's something to be proud of or a warning to the natives.

Given that it's in the Juban, you wouldn't expect it to be a particularly recent development, either...

First comes the scout in form of Anthony Bourdain, then the main bee swarm follows.