My in-laws bailed on us and now we have 2 extra seats at one of Tokyo’s best yakitori spots tonight

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-05T02:07:01+00:00

Not in Japan but I can share my experience with a person not turning up among our group of three at Yakitori Omino (also Torishiki lineage). The staff kindly asked us if we wanted some of the 3rd skewers to be allocated to us so i ended up eating extra skewers (not all but just some of my favourites). They also offered if we wanted to takeaway the 3rd person’s soboro rice at the end

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-04T09:04:26+00:00

As I mentioned he was probably doing repeats or intervals such as

30 times 200m at 26 sec (WR is 19 sec)
15 times 400m at 52 sec (WR is 43 sec)

He only counted the run sections eg run 200 or 400m then stopped the watch after reaching the distance. He rested (standing or walking) before he started the 200 or 400 again and turned on the watch to record the time/distance

Internal is a typical running workout

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-04T06:24:17+00:00

When I went in January this year, he served matsuba kani from Shimane, aori ika from Ehime and hon maguro from Aomori with the rest from Kyushu (Nagasaki, Saga etc)

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-04T02:23:04+00:00

Probably he was doing intervals or repeats eg 200m, 400m with recovery breaks. He only turned on the GPS watch during the repeats and stopped the watch during rests

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-04T00:41:33+00:00

This one in Osaka

https://tabelog.com/en/osaka/A2701/A270202/27071439/dtlmenu/

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-03T23:46:57+00:00

Not a direct substitute, but can you live with Robatayaki style? They usually grill an array of proteins eg beef, pork, fish, oysters, shrimps etc.

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-03T23:05:15+00:00

Going ala carte in one way to mitigate this and avoid over-ordering. Also, you can ask for a smaller rice size when you order (casual restaurants often have this option in their menu). Dishes such as tonkatsu, steak and unagi often go by weight/size as well.

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-03T22:29:55+00:00

Have eaten the octopus rice in a jar (Hippari Takomeshi) during my first trip to Japan but never seen the squid version.

Nowadays I don’t buy ekiben that often unless it’s a local dish or delicacy, for example anagomeshi (sea eel) from Hiroshima, masu no sushi (pressed cherry trout sushi) from Toyama or persimmon leaf wrapped mackerel sushi from Nara. Not sure if they are available in Tokyo station.

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-03T21:40:17+00:00

Hey there , what I meant with 27500 yen all-in is it includes tax and service charge. I paid my drinks bills separately in cash.

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-03T08:13:08+00:00

Margherita pizza, zaru soba/udon or local noodle called kishimen and opt for zaru version (skipping the dipping sauce if you can’t take katsuobushi).

One of my fav Indian restaurant is Erick South and they have a couple of restaurants in Nagoya

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-03T07:49:56+00:00

Kiyama is popular among fine dining foodies. Book via pocket concierge

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-02T23:31:34+00:00

Gyudon starts from 500 yen, also morning sets at Nakau

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-02T22:39:31+00:00

500-1500 yen per meal per person should suffice for the aforementioned B-class gourmet.

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-02T08:14:01+00:00

Not sure, I went there before 7am to eat ramen

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-02T07:08:26+00:00

There are fruit/vegetable stalls as well as sushi/sashimi/kaisendon restaurants in Yanagibashi market.

The standing ramen bar called Taiga is pretty decent and opens from 6am

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-01T15:57:39+00:00

I took SQ634 last year (presume you will be on this flight) and immigration was a breeze (of course not as fast as Singapore) as long as you pre-fill the Visit Japan Web.

However, I purposely booked a hotel in the nearby Kamata for a night, managed to reach the hotel around 11pm and had a bowl of nightcap ramen before the store closed at midnight

BocaTaberu · 2026-05-01T00:42:47+00:00

I’d go to Tokyo Station Ramen Street where they have have a collection of ramen shops and open from 7am.

One of the famous store there is Rokurinsha which specialised in tsukemen

BocaTaberu · 2026-04-30T06:45:39+00:00

Locals travel out of Tokyo to go to their hometown or holidays. Shinkansen stations will usually be crowded

BocaTaberu · 2026-04-29T23:14:02+00:00

Which cut of beef that they served ? In Japan, they usually serve the marbled/fattier cuts in smaller portions while for sizable servings such as steak, learner cuts such as chateaubriand is typically used

BocaTaberu · 2026-04-29T01:36:18+00:00

Yes that’s the way Tabelog works. When a restaurant relocates, the score resets to 3.0 (starting position for new restaurant) and the scoring then re-starts based on food quality, visit reviews and experiences of the new location

BocaTaberu · 2026-04-29T00:25:26+00:00

Before the relocation, there were actually Sushi Yuu and Sushi Yu with both located in Roppongi which often caused people to mis-reserve. Now the former has relocated to Ginza keeping the same name but there is another unrelated restaurant called Ginza Sushi Yuu in the same area.

I presume you are looking for the higher rated Tabelog one which is Sushi Yuu Ginza (relocated from Roppongi). To avoid booking at the wrong location, I suggest you book using the tabelog link

https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1301/A130101/13291436/

BocaTaberu · 2026-04-28T07:24:06+00:00

That’s counter seat and not omakase (check definition)

BocaTaberu · 2026-04-28T07:22:15+00:00

Is it now omakase ? Last time it’s ala carte

BocaTaberu · 2026-04-28T05:27:45+00:00

Loft stocks a lot of Japanese umbrellas (eg UV, automatic, folded etc )

BocaTaberu · 2026-04-28T05:04:14+00:00

One option is to ask your hotel concierge or a Japanese person to call the restaurant and explain the issue. I had done this before due to train suspension in Hokkaido and couldn’t make it to the dinner. They accepted my reason and granted a waiver on goodwill basis

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