Food Sake Tokyo

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Food Sake TokyoEatKozue Lunch Where to meet a friend that you haven’t seen in a long time? For a food writer you would think that it’s an easy decision. The challenge with Tokyo is that there is so much to choose from.

August 25

Food Sake TokyoEatKonga Onigiri Eat-in restaurants in department store basement food halls can offer cool dining options. I am most excited about Konga in the basement of Nihonbashi Takashimaya’s annex building.

August 23

Food Sake TokyoEatYamamoto Nori Love this new dining concept from Yamamoto Nori in Nihonbashi. The historic shop was founded in 1849. A famous shop for nori. It was Japan’s first drive-through shop!

May 10

Food Sake TokyoEatRamen and Sushi Cooking Class at Ramen Cooking Tokyo Delightful ramen and sushi cooking class in downtown Tokyo is a fun three-hour hands on experience at Ramen Cooking Tokyo.

May 9

Food Sake TokyoEatMorioka City Tour As part of my stay at @azumafarm.koiwai in Iwate I participated on a walking tour of the historic districts of Morioka. As a tour guide myself I loved participating on this tour.

April 29

Food Sake TokyoEatAzuma Farm Koiwai Exciting new property near Morioka, Iwate in Tohoku. I was lucky to be the very first guest to stay here, before it opened, for Afar. Grateful for the opportunity.

April 27

Food Sake TokyoEatSake Industry Night Exploring the world of food and sake is always a delight. The host of the Sake Industry Night at Kakō was Oriol Sola, Director of Operations at the new JW Marriott Hotel Tokyo.

April 25

Food Sake TokyoEatShibui by Sanae Ishida Shibui is a charming book by author Sanai Ishida about “The Japanese Art of Finding Beauty in Aging”.

April 21

Food Sake TokyoEatKatsuo Shokudo Mai Nagamatsu shaving katsuobushi. Katsuo Shokudo in Shibuya where Mai Nagamatsu shaves dried, smoked, and fermented katsuobushi filets into delicate strips just before serving.

September 3, 2025

Food Sake TokyoEatSado Sushi Uohide Niigata is a fabulous destination for seafood lovers. On the Sea of Japan the fish here is fresher than what many restaurants serve in Tokyo.

August 16, 2025

Day by Day Japan plans a first trip to Japan the way a friend who lives here would: one day at a time, with the trains and the prices written down.

Each route is a real day or weekend: where to go first, how long the walk or the train takes, what the ticket costs and where to eat on the way. Every price names who published it (the operator, the place itself, or the magazine or guide that printed it) and the date; where nobody printed a price, the route says so instead of guessing. Where a stop closes on set days, the route says what to do instead.

Around the routes sits the week in Japan. Every few hours the site reads the Japanese city and food press and the English-language desks in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Fukuoka, and puts the places they name on one map. Headlines stay in the language they were written in, every story links to its source, and we quote no more than a line.

The routes and notes are written by one editor under a pen name, Sora Nakamura, drafted with AI assistance from checked material and read before they go out. Day by Day Japan is independent: no advertisers, no affiliate links, no bookings.