When I was visiting Tokyo my friend made sure to let me know of all the cheaper places to eat, and one of them was a cafeteria style udon shop. I ordered their Oroshi-syou-yu which is soy sauce udon in a cold small size for 200 yen with the addition of a tempura sweet potato. [...]
After visiting the Tokyo Tower last year I really wanted to go back to check out Sanji's restaurant. I went online and filled out a very easy in English reservation form and quickly was e-mailed back a confirmation. We were given a 70 minute window in which to enjoy the buffet which was plenty enough [...]
Crepes are common in Harujuku. There's several little shops, usually with long lines and usually right next to one another selling crepes. After visiting the owl village I decided to stop by the Santa Monica Crepe section and get in line for a crepe. I picked out their Matcha Cheesecake special with Matcha whipped cream. [...]
While talking to my friend about things I wanted to do when I visited I mentioned going to an Owl cafe. My friend made reservations and we arrived early to check in before being told to leave and come back at our alloted time. Which was fine, we walked around the packed Harujuku streets and [...]
I'm pretty stumped at how anyone in Japan gets tickets to visit the Ghibli museum. My friend spent months trying to no avail, but while I was visiting Roppongi Hills was having an exhibit for Ghibli and a cafe to go with it which blew up on my Facebook feed. My friend, her boyfriend and [...]
Underneath Futakoshinchi station is a small restaurant/cafe called Kohikan. It is outside of the East exit. Ezzy and I went there for a quick breakfast before I was to head into Tokyo for a tour. I ordered pancakes with strawberries. They weren't the best pancakes in the world, a little crunch on the outside and the [...]
Ootoya is a Japanese chain my friend loves and suggested for dessert after our dinner at Keika Ramen. It was in the basement which wasn't fun to lug my suitcase down and it was somewhat crowded making it difficult to find a good spot to store it. We ended up putting it between us at [...]
After spending the afternoon with Emily I retrieved my suitcase from it's locker and lugged it to Shibuya to sit near Hachikō and wait for my friend Ezzy to get off work. I didn't have to wait too long and soon we were off in search of ramen, she'd received a list of suggestions from her [...]
Emily had recently spent some time at MOMAT and suggested it as our way to hide from the sun for a bit and soak up some air conditioning. We got there with just enough time to quickly enjoy some art before the museum closed. We were also lucky because we went on the first Sunday of [...]
Emily and I really wanted to sit and enjoy a cafe along the way to the Imperial Palace, partially for wifi. I was armed with my parasol but the air was just heavy and hot so as soon as we saw Runoa which had a sign saying free wifi we hurried in to look at [...]
