Posts on ‘June 8th, 2007’

What’s for Lunch?

Koyanagi, Asakusa I hope it’s not becoming politically incorrect to like eating eel, since we just enjoyed unagi for lunch. It seems it may be soon be on the endangered species list, like blue fin tuna. Well, if you don’t feel to guilty it’d be worth trying the unagi at Koyanagi in Asakusa, just a [...]

A Tour of a Typical Japanese Apartment

The Tatami Room Almost every apartment in Tokyo has at least 1 tatami room, meaning the flooring or that room is made of tatami mats. Most rooms in Japan, even with wood flooring, are still measured by the number of tatami it can hold. The typical room is about 6 tatami. The tatami room in [...]