You might want to tell them a list of your favorite sushi fish!
It is hard for anyone to learn how to order at a traditional sushi restaurant if you go there for the first time. Not all sushi restaurants can serve you in English either. I would recommend you to study online in advance and pick up your favorite sushi dish or bring their photos. Also, it is a goo…(89 words)
OKAKI-sun
Restaurant Sushi Communication
Most popular sushi fish is tuna!
Tuna is very popular sushi fish in Japan. There are three kinds of tuna – re “Otoro (belly of tuna. Fatty tuna, Taste great!)”, “Chutoro (medium fatty tuna)” and “Akami (lean tuna)”. They are usually eaten with soy source (Shoyu, sometimes called “Murasaki” in sushi restaurants) and a little bit of…(95 words)
OKAKI-sun
Tokyo Sushi Soy sauce Osaka Horse radish
People love to go to Shrines and Temples
One of the most popular is the Ise Shrine.If you ever get a chance to go to Mie-ken I strongly recommend it.In New Year Season I'd suggest to take public transport or if you go by car you should park your car one exit before the actual exit due to heavy traffic.They offer buses to take you …(229 words)
Yuuki I
Park Jinjya (Shrine) New year
Fried rice crackers are very popular!
Some rice crackers are fried in oil and they are called “Age-mochi”. They are well-seasoned with salt or soy source. Also, “Age-senbei” is also very popular. Cooked nonglutinous rice is flattened and dried before being fried.(36 words)
OKAKI-sun
Salt Rice cracker Fried rice
MIKAN and wine is a good match
The traditional image of a Japanese home during the winter.People all over Japan have a stack of Mikan on the table during the winter.Have you heard of a Kotatu?There is a small heater under the table and a large blanket that covers the corners of the table to keep the heat inside.Since…(114 words)
Yuuki I
Wine Fruits Juice Mandarin orange Winter
Order only the seasonal cuts of sushi.
Most sushi restaurants have recommended sushi for the day (normally around 5) which are often displayed somewhere in the restaurant.(19 words)
Steve
Restaurant Sushi
Strawberries in winter of course!
I have always wondered why you find strawberries in winter only in Japan!Of course, you do need them to decorate your whipped cream Christmas cake. It is a must but it should not be the only reason!In Belgium, where I come from, strawberries are a summer time delicacy. You start picking the…(109 words)
Claire
Winter Fruits Christmas Summer
mosquito repellent incense
The Japanese name is KATORI-SENKOI am living on the 39th floor of a building and there is not much mosquito there up my place. I think it is because there is no tree so high. The only one we found climbed up with the elevators.But the smell of katori senko is so nice and so reminiscent …(115 words)
Claire
Building Summer
Smoke
It is recently easy to find smoke-free cafés in Tokyo, because such smoke-free cafes increase in these days. Local governments made the regulations to prohibit to smoke on the road, so a lot of smokers try to find some spots such as smoke-free cafés. Therefore many cafes made a smoking sub-room or …(81 words)
Tommy
Set or by the piece - you can order sushi either way
If you're at the counter it's easy to see the case where the fresh fish is kept. If you don't know the names of the fish just point at what you want to eat and the itamae (sushi chef) will make that for you. Normally, you'll get two pieces, but you can ask for just one piece also.If you're …(311 words)
Joe Peters
Sushi
S'ki - of the yaki variety
Many people overseas have heard the "Sukiyaki Song" which of course, had a very different title in Japanese. But the real sukiyaki is a tasty dish.Many have heard of, or may have tried some version of, sukiyaki. It's a popular and well known dish consisting of beef (usually), mushrooms, other v…(297 words)
Joe Peters
Winter Beef Tofu (Soy bean curd) Hot pot dish Shabu shabu Sukiyaki
the emergence of small market!
If you want to get local vegetables and products, you can get them at the "cooperatives" if you are not in any large city center and if you have a car. You can also shop at small markets: the posh (and expensive) one is located in Aoyama, close to the UN University. There is another one in Yurakuch…(137 words)
Claire
City Coffee
Gyouza Okoku `Kingdom of Gyouza`
Gyouza or chinese dumplings are well-known in Japan. You can find them in restaurants and super-markets. Those who Love gyouza or those looking for 100% vegetarian gyouzas or Eager (& hungry) first-timers, do visit Gyouza Okoku restaurant in Minami-Gyotoku, 6~10 mins walk from Minami Gyotoku statio…(91 words)
Samir Bodhe
Tokyo Restaurant Chinese dumpling vegetarian gyouza Minami-gyotoku Subway Tokyo Metro Tozai Subway
Yatsuhashi
If you get a chance to visit Kyoto, you can find Yatsuhashi here and there at almost every souvenir shops. It is one of the best known regional products of Kyoto. Growing up in Kansai, there was a time I got actually a bit tired of this too popular sweets as a kid, but now I sometimes feel like…(134 words)
EmiOnishi
Tea Kyoto Souvenir Green tea Kansai Rice cracker Sugar Strawberry Sweets
About ONIGIRI... and O CHA TSUKE
Well, the easy way is to get them at your closest and favorite combine store. But, you can prepare them yourself. All you need is:- rice- a sheet of dried alga or if you do not like it, some sesame- salt- something to put inside: basically, anything you like. Purist will use the salty and a…(290 words)
Claire
Onigiri (Rice ball) Tea Winter Izakaya Sashimi (Raw fish) Umeboshi
2 sushi place you need to visit...
2 streets behind the Matsuya department store, there is a small sushi shop called Marui. Their fish come from Tsukiji market directly. Price is very reasonable. You get a lunch for 900 or 1000 yen and in the evening, you also have some menu possibilities that will not let you leave with empty p…(209 words)
Claire
Sushi Visit Ginza Department store Tsukiji Evening Lunch
Special places in Japan can be hidden just outside of the city
How much would you pay to eat fresh sashimi?Would you go to a 100 yen Kaiten Sushi?Or would you prefer to know what your eating and go to a Sushi bar where the chief is right in front of you? Sounds expensive?!The fish you eat in Tokyo the main hub comes through a large market called Tuki…(288 words)
Yuuki I
City Tokyo Sushi Soy sauce Sea Izakaya Sashimi (Raw fish)
Winter time is Nabe Time!
Don't like to cook but like to eat tasty Japanese food.If you haven't already you should try Japanese nabe.It's simple to make and there is wide verity of tastes available.In the winter time there will be a Nabe corner at almost any supermarket.They are in a large liquid bag. Popular tast…(114 words)
Yuuki I
Winter Hot pot dish Miso Salt
Ramen with Chashu Topping
Ramen are very popular in Japan. There are magazines and books about ramen and TV shows where people do nothing but walk around from shop to shop eating. Ramen come in several flavours, depending on the broth cooked by the shop master. The broth is mixed to make shoyu or miso taste. Whatever ta…(138 words)
David
Ramen noodles Chashu Kanagawa Fujisawa
How to dip soy sauce ?
To separate sushi rice and fish is a violation. Pick up one side of sushi with your thumb, forefinger and middle finger, dip the other side slightly into soy sauce.http://www.japaneserestaurants.co.nz/more/best-way-to-eat-sushi/Do not dissolve Wasabi into soy sauce when you eat Sashimi,…(54 words)
Eddie
Sushi Soy sauce
Kinsai in Nakameguro is a great Izakaya
If you are looking for tasty small plates of great japanese food that goes well with sake, beer and wine- but you don't want a low end chain or a disney-fake experience- check out KINSAI in nakameguro. The food is always great, and there is a good seasonal variety I especially recommended gri…(88 words)
LShannon
Izakaya Beer Sake (Rice wine) English Cuisine Drink
A community with trust and connection
My good friend Kato-san's family runs a farmhouse near Hamamatsu.I had the chance to visit is home the other day.The entrance to the house is right by a main road where people and cars pass by.I was welcomed by a vertical flag saying "Kato's Farmhouse."The entrance of the property were st…(244 words)
Yuuki I
Visit
A place that leads you back in time!
The other day, I needed a café to get myself alive and kicking and I entered the Virgin coffee shop in Roppongi, located at the corner of a 35 years old building, not very far from Gonpachi, along the highway. This is in the same building as the eclectic boutique hotel H&R Roppongi. If you stay th…(372 words)
Claire
Roppongi Coffee shop
Tempura - Kaneko Hannosuke at Nihonbashi
I love their tendon. They are actually one of the best tendons I've ever had! The shop is clean and neat too.When you sit down, you are first served with Tea that has floating black beans. (I was very impressed with this service when I first visited them. Very Japanese!)They only have one menu.…(169 words)
EmiOnishi
Tempura Tokyo Tea Ginza Miso Miso soup Eel Tendon
A quiet Italian in Gotanda
Il Cavallo is a bit hidden away on the 3rd floor of Tokyo Design Center Building, but access is easy as it's right in front of exit #7 of Gotanda Station.Set lunches range from 1,050 to 4,000 yen. I had the Pranzo B which included a choice of soup of antipasto and a main course (pork on the day…(141 words)
Joe Peters
Tokyo Restaurant Music Coffee Lunch Dinner Italian cuisine
"Teishoku" is a nostalgic homemade meal for Japanese.
Are you interested in the fare found in a normal, ordinary Japanese household? Why not give Teishoku（定食） a try? The word itself means "set meal", and if you've stayed at a Japanese style inn and enjoyed breakfast there, you must have tasted steamed rice, miso soup and several other delicacies…(305 words)
Hagi
Teishoku Tokyo Miso Izakaya Miso soup Lunch Gyudon (Beef bowl) Japanese cuisine Hotel
The Kit Kat world in Japan.
Japan is a place to enjoy unique Kit Kat flavors. There are so many varieties of them some of it even may be a bit strange to bite into those choco covered wafers. What are the flavors you tried until now in Japan? Keep your eyes open in super markets and you will be surprised on the Kitkat flavour…(90 words)
idivilayil
Kit Kat Gifu Japan flavours
Find an Oasis in the Desert!
If you come to Tokyo, you find that each district has its own atmosphere. Tsukiji, Ginza, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Asakusa, Meguro, Roppongi, they are all different. The architecture is different, people working and living there are different. People at different time of the day or night are even differe…(369 words)
Claire
Roppongi Restaurant Hotel
Vegetarian in Tokyo: Kichjouji
Japan is the land of endless variations of tofu, but sometimes you just want to sink your teeth into something burger-like and protein-packed. In Japan veggie burgers and other TVP based faux-meat products are hard to find, so when the craving gets overwhelming I jump on the Inokashira line to Kich…(138 words)
Chiara
vegetarian Tokyo Tofu (Soy bean curd) Kichijouji
Why Japanese seafood so good
Seaweed art learned by NPO who try to teach ecology through seaweed; underwater forest. Japan is the islands country in temperate zone and it's rich sea hold much seaweed brings up many fish and creatures. That is one of the reason of rich Japanese seafood. You can also taste many kinds of seaweed …(102 words)
noby
Seafood Art Sea Miso Miso soup Oden Zone diving seaweed
Hanami: Do it like the Japanese
This is the check list of things that you absolutely need stricto minima to do your Hanami party like the Japanese! If you have the following kit, you will look like the real part! - blue plastic sheet: to use as a carpet. You can use one with Hello Kitty or Pikatchu but blue will do it. …(210 words)
Claire
Hanami (Cherry Blossom Viewing) Beer Edamame (Green soybeans)
Inspired by Starbucks - a Shimokitazawa cafe
From the outside it looks like just another one of the ubiquitous standard designed Tokyo cafes with rows of heartlessly wrapped cellophane sandwiches, boring buns and plastic cheesecakes. The food is good and tasty, and my dog is particularly fond of a slice of apple and cinnamon pie with vanilla …(266 words)
Andrew Grimes
Cafe Shimokitazawa Tokyo Beer Coffee Wine English Juice Wi-Fi Setagayaku
Japanese sweets
Japanese sweets and cakes are awesome.If you are afraid to try the traditional ones, those made with rice and red beans, you can still try the "occidental" ones.If you go to a department store food floor (usually basement floor), you will have a huge choice of patisseries and breads. Giotto…(189 words)
Claire
Sweets
7 Reasons Why Tokyo is the New Paris - Food and Wine
http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/2014/4/23/7-reasons-why-tokyo-is-the-new-parisA post from a Food and Wine writer about Tokyo... He highlights a few things (...obvious to us), but it is great coming from a "third-party Francophile". Tokyo certainly has great pastries (... and bakeries). Whil…(270 words)
Teddy
Tokyo Drink Coffee Pastry Bakery
Sasebo Hamburgers
When one thinks of hamburgers, you usually think of the good old USA. However, if there's one thing Japan is good at, it is taking ideas, things and even foods from other countries, putting their own spin on it and making it uniquely Japanese.While I was visiting Huis ten Bosch in Sasebo, I tr…(159 words)
Kevin
Sasebo Hamburger Huis Ten Bosch Visit
Ready for some MEAT in Tokyo?
Just in case you are in the need for some amazing steak, Wolfgang's steakhouse in Roppongi will definite fulfill you! This is the first video review of the restaurant to share with the Deep Japan community.http://www.japantoday.com/category/food/view/kong-wolfgangsWe were very impressed! To f…(97 words)
Kong
Tokyo Wolfgangs Steakhouse Kamasami Kong Steak in Tokyo Japan Travel food Steakhouse Japan Roppongi Restaurant
Please look at the skill of the sushi chef!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E44woh1WpLw&list=PLfQuuFcXsEKvRAMyyvxZi60AKVMS-uDP1Enjoy a video of beautiful Japanese food and chef's techniques which make you touched.This time, we present you a video of sushi which makes your mouth water.How fun of sushi, as well as eat, and enjo…(64 words)
Eddie
Sushi Food Japanese cuisine
Have you ever experienced Japanese wine? Let's find your favorite one!
Hope you all had a good holiday.I just came back from a Japanese wine cave in Katsunuma, Yamanashi - there are 180 kinds of certified local wine in the cave. Katsunuma is well-known for its grapes. 25% of Japanese grapes were grown there. And it is so close to the central Tokyo - just 90 mins b…(320 words)
Wine
Spring
Yamanashi
May
Tokyo
My most favorite SUSHI place....
As promised, this is to introduce my most favorite Sushi place. Sushi Yoshi is the name. Yoshi-san is very young, but doing a great job. What I like most here is "shari" (or "rice") under the "neta" (or "fish"). Not too soft, not too hard, just right. Believe or not, that makes a HUGE differen…(143 words)
KIH
Sushi Tokyo Drink English Lunch Dinner Nihonbashi
Bakery & Table HAKONE
Great food, service and views!We happened to pass by this place and walked in. But it turned out to be excellent! We grabbed a couple of pastry with a bottle of milk and sat outside enjoying the view of the Ashi Lake. You can take off your shoes and socks at the outside table and soak your bare…(131 words)
EmiOnishi
Hakone Bakery Restaurant Spring Bus Shoes Milk Lake view Food