Garuru Coffee
In a quiet residential area in Suita, Hokusetsu, there is a popular large café named Garuru Coffee, which was …
Iicho Ramen
A short 10-minute walk from Shimogamo Shrine is “Iicho Ramen”, a store popular among Kyoto ramen l …
Drive-in Tori Itoshima Branch
“Yakitori ichiban! Tori meshi niban!” This is a drive-in chicken restaurant with a catchphrase tha …
Kawamura Shokudo
Kawamura Shokudo, a small Western-style restaurant in Nishijin, Kyoto, located in a deep area where only local …
Menya Doton Dotonbori
Dotonbori Kamukura, a ramen chain restaurant from Osaka with 79 outlets in Kansai and Tokyo (as of October 202 …
Ralukii
Have you ever heard of “Pepetama”? Pepetama” is a creative pasta dish created by Ralukii, a …
Troisieme Marche
While walking from the bus stop toward Houtou Fudo, a famous Hoto restaurant in the Kawaguchiko area, I notice …
Ramen Kai Kobe
I came to know about this restaurant by chance, called Ramen Kai Kobe in front of JR Kobe Station. It seems th …
Kouga-ryu Amerika-mura Head Shop
Kouga-ryu, one of the most popular takoyaki restaurants in Osaka, has been in business since 1974 right in fro …
Kawafuku Honten Shinsaibashi
In Shinsaibashi, Osaka, there is a restaurant called Kawafuku Honten, which claims to be the “birthplace …
Sugoi Niboshi Ramen Nagi Shinjuku Golden Gai Branch – Main Shop
In Shinjuku Golden Gai, one of the deepest spots in Shinjuku, there is a popular 24-hour ramen restaurant call …
Houtou Fudo Kawaguchiko Kita Head Shop
I visit a shrine at the foot of Mt. Fuji once a year. Last year, when I visited the shrine by highway bus from …
Kawaya Shiragane Head Shop
When I learned from a TV program that “Hakata has a food called torikawa (chicken skin),” I immedi …
Iekei So-honzan Yoshimuraya
It is rumored that there are more than 1,000 Ihekei-Ramen restaurants in Japan and Asia, and that Ihekei-Ramen …
Indian Curry Hanshin Branch
Indian Curry, known as the originator of Osaka’s sweet and spicy curry, has a total of 10 branches in Os …
Soratobu Udon Yamabukiya
When I visited Toyonaka Mentetsu, a popular ramen restaurant in Toyonaka, I found a line of people waiting in …
Asian Bar Lamai Osaka Abiko Branch
Osaka boasts the second largest economy in Japan, so it is usual for popular restaurants from around the count …
Ginzo Thanks Minoo Branch
Every year on the day of the Ox of Doyou, the eels at Ginzo are very reasonably priced… To verify such a rumor …
Ichifuji Shokudo
Osaka’s local dish “nikusui” (meat soup) was born from a comment made by a Yoshimoto comedia …
European style earthenware pot curry Ohmiya Seiuemon
In Kyoto, there is a very strange curry store run by a long-established pickle shop. You must be thinking,  …
Ramen Jiro Yokohama Kannai Branch
As of September 2023, there are 44 Ramen Jiro restaurants in Japan (see here for the latest number), and Ramen …
Misoka-an Kawamichiya
Misoka-an Kawamichiya. This restaurant, which is said to have been established around 1688 in the Edo period, …
Daisho-en
One autumn weekend, after work, I felt like having yakiniku (BBQ) by myself for the first time in a while… so …
Western Cuisine Quattro
Quattro is a western-style restaurant in Motomachi that has become one of the most popular western-style resta …