- Extracted article from last year-

My hide-out in Kanazawa

It is a little tiny place on narrow side street of Higasiyama Teahouse area.
People usually don’t realize it because it dose not show big sign.
Even if people realize it, they would surely hesitate to enter it.
It has some kind of atmosphere to prevent people from entering.
But once you [...]

According to Kikunoya Ryokan in Kanazawa, there is a unique place called “Yaho”.
“Yaho” is not a name of anything, but people just call that Japanese light meal bar “Yaho”.
That’s because the master of that bar only speaks “Yaho”.
“Yaho” itself doesn’t mean anything.
No matter what words you speak to him, he only says “Yaho”.
“Yaho” is the [...]

Ishiguro is my #2 hide-out that I wrote here couple of days ago.
I went there again for lunch just now.
I did not speak even single word there as usual as I wrote here.
Today’s only one kind lunch box was grilled flatfish and boiled eggplant with some beef and some vinegared sea foods.
It comes of course [...]

 
I am not that crazy about “Takoyaki”, octopus dumpling, but most of Japanese people love it so that you can find a “Takoyaki” shop quite a few in town.
The “Takoyaki” shop I like most is called “Gindako” in the basement of M’ZA department store in Musashi area.
I sometimes buy “Takoyaki” there and bring it back [...]

It is a “kappou” (Japanese style restaurant) near Ohmicho fish market.
I often go there for lunch.
It does not show a sign that they are open, so first-time customers are almost impossible to come in.
Uniqueness of this restaurant is that you don’t have to speak even one word in the restaurant.
You enter, sit on one of [...]