The previously mentioned chanpon restaurant near our apartment has recently become popular. The seats are usually full now, and sometimes there is even a line out the door. There was no line at Chanpon Taro on this evening, but some bike riders appear to have been enjoying a meal inside.
At the end of the Arakawa Line (都電荒川線) is Minowabashi (三ノ輪橋). Nearby is an old-time, covered shopping street. And on that street you can find this gyoza man. I have purchased his homemade gyoza twice. The first time I purchased from him I tasted the best gyoza I have ever tasted. The second time wasn’t as amazing, but it may have been my fault on the cooking end for that second batch.
The streets on the west side of the Shinjuku Station come alive at night with office-less businesses. One is pictured above, a portable ramen shop. I was taking Ryan, on this evening, to catch a night bus. I was expecting there to be an office for the bus company at the address given, but there wasn’t. Instead, there were just some people on the street who check you in and then tell you which bus to get on.
On the train home from Shinjuku I captured a brief video between the Shinjuku and Shinokubo Stations. Another train seemed to be racing us. We stopped and it didn’t so we didn’t “win.” Check it out.
On our last visit to Shakey’s Pizza in Takadanobaba I forgot to take pictures of the pizza.
The sign out front this time featured some interesting combinations like hamburger pizza, chili con carne pizza, banana chocolate pizza, and caramel marshmallow pizza.
Here are some of the actual pieces. From left to right we have banana chocolate pizza, hamburger pizza (which actually tasted just like Mexican tacos), and corn pizza.
Speaking of a tower in Tokyo, you can now purchase one of these crazy looking cheeseburgers at Lotteria for only 100 yen per slice of cheese and hamburger patty. I haven’t sampled one, and don’t plan to, but the three or four burgers I have eaten in Japan have all been fantastic. Of course I didn’t eat any of them Lotteria, McDonald’s, etc. either.
While on our walk in Niiza, we were becoming a bit hungry when we saw the above building in the distance. “Great,” we thought, “a few sushi pieces and we’ll be good to go until lunch.”
When we got closer, we realized that this was no ordinary kaiten sushi place. Not only can you get sushi off of a conveyor belt here, you can also get it to go or get it through the drive through!
Drive-through restaurants aren’t nearly as common in Japan as they are in the U.S.A. Above is a photo of the menu.
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