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Planet Tokyo: The Museosphere 東京星の博物圏

Tokyo is much too big to stuff into one, or even two or three blog posts. I have broken down my excursion into six categories and will be posting them as a series over the next couple weeks. The amount...

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Planet Tokyo: The Mercatosphere 東京星の市販圏

With the exception of beer and grocery shopping, I don’t really count kaimono (literally “buying things”) among my hobbies. However, I must say I had a fine time shopping in Tokyo, mostly because I...

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Planet Tokyo: The Sakurosphere 東京星の桜圏

For a city as densely developed as Tokyo, they sure find a lot of room for cherry trees. We enjoyed a picturesque hanami stroll along the northwestern perimeter of the Imperial Palace moat, and then...

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Planet Tokyo: The Gastrosphere 東京星の食圏

The food geek universe has recently been abuzz with the news that Tokyo has more Michelin stars than any city in the world, including Paris. In fact, it has twice as many as Paris. I couldn’t really...

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Planet Tokyo: The Zymurgosphere 東京星の醗圏

In my post about beer in Sapporo, I wrote: “Even in huge, international cities like Tokyo and Osaka, you have to go a bit out of your way to get the good stuff when it comes to beer.” Boy, was I...

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Foie Gras フォアグラー

In my recent post about all the yummy stuff I ate in Tokyo, I refrained from discussing my appetizer at Les Saisons on account that I thought it was so good it deserved its own post. The appetizer was...

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Tokyo, Mon Amour? 東京、モナムール?

I’ve always loved Tokyo. Even before I’d been there, I loved it, and then I loved it even more once I finally got a chance to visit. And I loved it more still after I learned to read. Y’know in the...

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