Eel-Donburi@Hamana-rake

May 20, 2008 - 11:13 am by ayumi_ito in Food  

Hamana-rake is famous for cultivating largest number of eel in Japan. It is recommended that visiting nice restrant for having eel when you come over Hamamatsu-city in Shizuoka-prefecture.
How people find nice eel restaurant?
If you are Japanese, you can look for magazine, books, internet, people….etc. Otherwise, it is best way to visit Hamana-rake because there are [...]

Back to the 50-60’s Japan -Andy’s Izakaya

March 2, 2008 - 12:34 am by sachie_kobayashi in Food  

Feel like yakitori with some beer? Japanese fish dish?
You may image that the traditional Japanese food is quite expensive. Oｆ cause that’s right to some extent, so is haute cuisine, but actually such food is not everyday diet.
Then, try Izakaya food. it’s not so expensive but yummy! Find a red lantern! Red lantern indicates “Izakaya”, or [...]

Gomar’s The Beautiful JAPAN Hoheikan (Historical Guest House) at Sapporo

January 16, 2008 - 3:33 pm by Gomar in Culture, Others, Travel  

Hoheikan is in the Nakajima park, and is the first western style’s hotel in Hokkaido and an important building of the Meiji period.
Hoheikan is chiefly used as a Wedding Hall. Besides, there are a coffee shop, a photograph pavilion, and a restaurant of the reservation system. The visit of internal is free.

The inside becomes [...]

Ramen Museum - Shin Yokohama

January 15, 2008 - 10:43 am by kaorichani in Culture, Food, Others  

 Ramen as a local dish Ramen’s popularity quickly spread from Yokohama, Hakodate and other big japanese port cities to every corner of Japan, during the Taisho and Showa eras ( Taisho Jidai ( 1912-1926) Showa Jidai ( 1926-1989).At first , the new opened Ramen restaurants , away from the bigger cities , only reproduced the recipies [...]

ICHIRAN Ramen Shop @ Canal City Hakata, more photoes, English order sheet, and my recommendation

December 27, 2007 - 6:56 pm by akko@hakata in Food, Others, Travel  

This is Ichiran Ramen!

Which makes customers speechless.

I gurantee its taste, but if you want to make some arrangement,
I would especially recommend…

to get more onion!

What you should do is just pay another 100 yen, and say,
`Tuika negi, Kudasai’ (`Please give me another onions!’)

This is the English version of ICHIRAN order sheet.
(There’re [...]

ICHIRAN Ramen Shop, special lunch box version @ Canal City Hakata !

December 19, 2007 - 5:18 pm by akko@hakata in Food, Travel  

Hakata (an old merchants’ town in Fukuoka prefecture) is a FOOD PARADICE, and is especially famous for… `Tonkotsu Ramen’, the noodle with pork bone soup !

Out of many many Ramen shop, ICHIRAN is very popurar, for its home made delicious taste, hospitality of staff, and the unique system to enjoy Ramen.

This is ICHIRAN @ [...]

Eel Restaurant “Oedo”

December 5, 2007 - 10:58 am by kaorichani in Food, Others  

Unagi Restaurant ” Oedo “” Eel , I wonder how it tastes” . Thats was one of my  thoughts the time I arrived in Japan .Back home everyone told me , that I have to try eel at least once. It is  delicious, they said. Thats why , the other day we went to a very good [...]

Christmas Illumination 2007 Part 3, more photoes@ Canal City Hakata

November 21, 2007 - 12:34 am by akko@hakata in Food, Others, Travel  

Around Canal City Hakata, there’re lots of local restaurants, and also entertainment night spot called Nakassu. What surprises us is, from Canal City, we cannot see any of those entertainment building. That’s the way Canal City Hakata is designed:>

Christmas Illumination 2007 Part 2, fountain show @ Canal City Hakata

November 17, 2007 - 10:52 am by akko@hakata in Culture, Food, Others, Travel  

One of the most popular place in Canal City Hakata, the largest shopping and entertainment mall in Kyushu Island is, SUN PLAZA STAGE, where we can enjoy DANCING WATER SHOW every hour.

Along with the latest music, water dance dramatically.

In the evening, this place completely changes.
The Christmas decoration this year is very fantasic, as we [...]

Tokyo ramen reviews in English!

August 15, 2007 - 9:05 pm by kamiosaki in Culture, Food, Travel  

http://www.ramentokyo.com
For reviews of Tokyo ramen shops in English, by a native, I definitely recommend that you check out this site. Frequently, foreigners in Tokyo (residents or visitors), are hesitant to go after “real” ramen, as opposed to the stand up 400 yen noodle shops on the train platforms. If you are concerned about not finding [...]