Annual Festival of Nezu Shrine

I went to the annual festival of Nezu Shrine. In the festival last year, I didn't know where to look, so I read up on the festival. Nezu shr...

Japanese Restaurant Kurogi

I went to a Japanese restaurant where it is difficult to make a reservation. I made a reservation for a private room. The Michelin guide a...

Wine Bar in Yushima

I went to a wine bar which has been on my mind lately. It was no problem to take dinner there because I wasn’t able to have a lot.   The ba...

Tabata Ginza

There is a famous shopping street called Yanaka Ginza in my neighborhood, but I went to a fish shop on a shopping street called Tabata Ginza...

Azalea Festival

I knew that the azalea festival was being held because I have seen posters on signboards at train stations and on neighborhood association n...

Bengalese Finch

When I walked around my neighborhood, I found a flea market being held. I wasn’t going to buy anything. There were four small birds in cages...

Yanaka Reien

I went to Yanaka Reien which is one of the three major cemeteries in Tokyo . It is in a 100000 square meter area and is located north of Uen...

Dorayaki called Kuromatsu

There was a Dorayaki called Kuromatsu which has strange flavor when I compared the difference to a different Dorayaki, a traditional Japanes...

Ueno to Nezu in a Walking Tour

Last weekend, I walked from Ueno to Sendagi. I usually walk along the path when I miss the last train in Ueno but haven’t checked out the to...

French Restaurant in Sendagi

I went to a restaurant called Brasserie Perle. I knew of the restaurant, but I hadn't been there. The restaurant is a few-minutes walk along...

Aigre Douce

  The patisserie called Aigre Douce is a famous patisserie which sells delicious cakes. It is a seven minute walk to Yamate-dori from Mejiro...

Shinjyuku NS Building

I went to the Shinjyuku NS Building. I no sooner got inside the building than I saw an open ceiling space. The ceiling had a sky-high, and s...

Ueno

Ueno has lots of museums, so it is originally a town of art. I didn't know why, but the whole area wasn’t beautiful and gave a bad impressio...

Apple Pie Shop

Last weekend, I went to Yanaka because I buy apple pie from a shop called “Mammies”. The shop is located on the way to Tokyo Metro Sendagi S...

Ikayaki in Yanaka

I went to Yanaka in Taito Ward, Tokyo . It was 3 p.m, so I was a bit hungry. Therefore, I went to an Ikayaki shop called "Yakiya". It is loc...

Rakugo

Suzumoto engeijyo is one of Yose in Tokyo and is located in Taito ward, Tokyo . Yose means a permanent hut holding performances such as rak...

French Restaurant in Kanda

I went to a French restaurant called Bistro-Marsanne in Kanda for lunch. I found the restaurant on a website called Tabelog. The website is ...

A Soba shop in Nezu

I introduce a "soba" shop, a Japanese noodle shop, where I always go to eat year-crossing noodles on New Year's Eve. The shop called Takajyo...

Bar in Shibuya

I went to a colleague's favorite bar called Travis in Shibuya. The bar is located on the second floor of a building around an alley. The doo...

http://tay-downtowntokyo.blogspot.com/2011/01/we-went-to-tempra-restaurant-for-dinner.html

We went to a tempra restaurant for dinner with a person visiting my company from Britain. I decided to go to the restaurant serving traditio...

Dorayaki

Dorayaki is a Japanese sweet which is two disk-shaped sponge cakes spread with some sweet bean paste. It is baked with honey, so it is moist...

Yanaka

Yanaka means “valley” in Japanese, and it is an area in the Taito ward, Tokyo. The area is located inside the Yamanote line, and it has an a...

Kabayaki and Shirayaki

I found an eel shop called "Inageya" in my neighborhood and went in and checked it out. I liked the shop. Prices of eel dishes are always ex...

First Visit to a Shinto Shrine

I went to see the first sunrise of the year, and subsequently I visited a Shinto shrine. I had the impression that shrines are usually crowd...

The First Sunrise

The New Year has started. I made it through another year while listening to the bells at a temple and seeing a beautiful garden of the templ...