If you have ever been to Tokyo, I am sure you have seen all of the soba restaurants inside the train stations. They are typically full of businessmen on their way to work who want to get a quick bite to eat, but they are actually so good. The most popular chain that I know…
Mischievous Kiss 2 is a sequel to the series I wrote about before, Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo. If you already watched the first season, the main cast is the same in the 2nd season. However, the plot and feel of Mischievous Kiss 2 is a little different than the first season. The show is…
Address: 83 N King St, Honolulu, HI 96817 In a previous post, I mentioned the Vietnamese restaurant Broken Rice. While that is probably my favorite Vietnamese restaurant in Hawaii, The Pig and the Lady is also a great restaurant. The Pig and the Lady is a different type of restaurant though, as it is more…
Giri/Haji is a British/Japanese television show that was produced by the BBC, but is now shown on Netflix. The show has a half-Japanese and half-British cast, and it also splits time between the two places. The story is about the Japanese yakuza, the Japanese police, and the British police, and how a murder of a…
Although I have started to use Duolingo a lot to practice my Japanese, it is only a supplement to JapanesePod101.com. JapanesePod101 is a website that is made to help people of any level practice their Japanese. Before I decided I was going to learn Japanese, I did a lot of research to see what the…
Address: 2903 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90029 Osen Izakaya is a Japanese restaurant in Silverlake, and it has both great sushi and traditional dishes. According to an article that I read on it, the chef of the restaurant used to be a former chef of TAO in Hollywood, as well as being involved in…
Million Yen Women, or 1,000,000 Yen No Onnatachi in Japanese, is one of the first Japanese shows that I ever watched on Netflix. The main star in the show is Yojiro Noda, who is also a singer in the group Radwimps. According to some of my friends, he also sang most of the songs in…
Nabezo is one of the best AYCE shabu-shabu restaurants in Japan. They have multiple locations throughout Tokyo, with restaurants in Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, etc. All of them are the same concept and the same quality, so I would just recommend going to whichever one is most convenient for you. I believe all of the Nabezo’s…
Mischievous Kiss: Love In Tokyo is one of the highest rated Japanese shows that I have found on Rakuten Viki, with a rating of 9.3/10. It is also one of the older shows available, as the show came out in 2013. Just because it is older though, does not mean that it is not worth…
Atelier is one of the most popular Japanese shows on Netflix, and for good reason. Like many Japanese shows, the concept may seem a bit strange at first, but it somehow works really well. Atelier is about a high-end lingerie store, and the two main characters in the show are the original founder of the…
