Tokyo - Day Four
mmmm...donuts. I found a killer breakfast place at the Ueno train station. They have pastries and coffee in a pleasant and easy to use atmosphere. They have what I honestly think is the best donut I have ever had - it was your basic filled donut with that fine dusting of sugar on top. The filling was some kind of sweet bean paste and it was amazing. I will be starting my morning off there from now on.
Today was my first attempt at finding an address in the maze-of-death-by-no-address city. It took me an hour or more of wandering around a 5 block area of Shibuja to find an internet cafe before I actually found the building, and, it was deserted. Closed down completely. No internet. No cafe.
Headed over to Tower Records and picked up a DJ Krush CD. Now it was time to try the Kanda Yabu Soba restaurant - a legendary soba noodle shop in the Akibara/Kanda prefecture. Another hellish trial of navigation, but, this time I was ALSO starving and getting very, very crabby at every dead end and missed street. I had to sit down and munch on a Cliff Bar (brought specifically for such an occasion) and then continue on. Finally I was successfull and boy was it worth it.
Great soba meal. I ordered a wasabi umi appetizer which is grated Yam paste with wasabi. It was kinda like a glob of white paste. Not bad. Next was a tasty bowl of grilled eel in hot soup broth with soba in the bowl, instead of seperate. I could tell the Eel was grilled over wood or charcoal. Washed it all down with a large beer which turned out to be a 40.
I met up with Igor for dinner in Shibuya. Unbelievably mobbed with people. Complete madness. There's a sea of people walking everywhere on every street.
Daytime Shibuya
Jay-Walk-Street-Crossing-Of-Death-By-Mob-Of-People
We went to a izakaya, which is essentially a Japanese pub but a bit upscale with good food. This one was quite cool inside with a tiered traditional seating area on the left as you walked down an into the place. The rest of the main floor is all traditional seating and we headed over to the bar. You eat tapas style here, ordering small dishes as you like. We started off with a asparagus pork roll skewer and then a pork kim-chi spring roll. Our next sampling was of yakatori, the meat on a stick bbq. style. One of the sticks was a strange, mystery meat but otherwise pretty good. After that - sake!! My first sake since arriving. Very tasty.
Walked around Shibuya a bit afterwords...
Today was my first attempt at finding an address in the maze-of-death-by-no-address city. It took me an hour or more of wandering around a 5 block area of Shibuja to find an internet cafe before I actually found the building, and, it was deserted. Closed down completely. No internet. No cafe.
Headed over to Tower Records and picked up a DJ Krush CD. Now it was time to try the Kanda Yabu Soba restaurant - a legendary soba noodle shop in the Akibara/Kanda prefecture. Another hellish trial of navigation, but, this time I was ALSO starving and getting very, very crabby at every dead end and missed street. I had to sit down and munch on a Cliff Bar (brought specifically for such an occasion) and then continue on. Finally I was successfull and boy was it worth it.
Great soba meal. I ordered a wasabi umi appetizer which is grated Yam paste with wasabi. It was kinda like a glob of white paste. Not bad. Next was a tasty bowl of grilled eel in hot soup broth with soba in the bowl, instead of seperate. I could tell the Eel was grilled over wood or charcoal. Washed it all down with a large beer which turned out to be a 40.
I met up with Igor for dinner in Shibuya. Unbelievably mobbed with people. Complete madness. There's a sea of people walking everywhere on every street.
Daytime Shibuya
Jay-Walk-Street-Crossing-Of-Death-By-Mob-Of-People
We went to a izakaya, which is essentially a Japanese pub but a bit upscale with good food. This one was quite cool inside with a tiered traditional seating area on the left as you walked down an into the place. The rest of the main floor is all traditional seating and we headed over to the bar. You eat tapas style here, ordering small dishes as you like. We started off with a asparagus pork roll skewer and then a pork kim-chi spring roll. Our next sampling was of yakatori, the meat on a stick bbq. style. One of the sticks was a strange, mystery meat but otherwise pretty good. After that - sake!! My first sake since arriving. Very tasty.
Walked around Shibuya a bit afterwords...
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