Restaurants in Tokyo

We had some really good food at:

Good Honest Grub - we went to the branch in Harajuku. Their veggie burger was the best. There wasn't a pattie in it, just grilled veg. You get to pick 2 toppings for it, I chose tofo pumpkin spread and babaganoosh. Be warned, it's very hard to not have desert, they bring over the pudding platter so you can see close up all the delicious options. I wasn't strong enough to resist the chocolate peanut butter tofu cheesecake, which was divine.

Kabul Shokudou - an Afghan restaurant in Ochanomizu. The dishes were good, lots of veggie choice and great breads. I'd not eaten at an Afghan place before, the food was somewhere between Lebanese and Indian food but closer to Lebanese I'd say.

Naka Naka - in Shinjuku. It's an izakaya, which means it's somewhere in between a pub and a restaurant. This one was quite fancy in it's decor - it had a forest like feel, lots of wood, carvings of flower and hanging lanterns and each table was in it's own little area. The food was good quality, modern Japanese style and beautifully presented - of course. The waiter very kindly pointed out all the veggie choices. We ended up with some unusual stuff but that's part of the fun of eating out. Sandy and I drank cocktails, Joules kept to the beer, though one time he made a shandy gaff, I mean he ordered one - it's beer and ginger beer, a good combo.

Shopping in Tokyo

I had a great day's shopping in Tokyo during our first week here. Well I needed to spend that last pay cheque somehow!

At Akihabara (Joules and I fondly refer to this part of town as Abracadabra), which is electronic central, I bought a camera. It's a Canon Kiss Digital N (EOS 350 D in the UK) and came with 2 lenses - a 18-55mm and a 55-200mm - ultrasonic. It's a digital SLR. The body is silver and lightweight. It's great and I love using it. If you're wondering what it looks like you can see my camera here.


Junie Moon in Daikan'yama is a shop dedicated to Blythe and is now my favourite shop in the world (sorry Nasty Nip). It was like a dream come true to go there, I'd been waiting for 2 years to visit it. This is the Junie Moon website. I bought a Blythe Lounging Lovely, Flower Power Dress Set, a book 'Blythe Style' by Gina Garan, and some postcards etc.

Greetings!

Hi there.

It's a bit scary writing my first post to my blog. At the moment I'm not really sure how the blog's going to turn out, I guess I'll just see what happens.

I've been in Japan 6 weeks now, and loads has happened so the first so many posts will be catch up.

I also have a photo website, they aren't really holiday snaps however, so they may not be that interesting unless you like flowers. Here are my photos

Here goes...