Mitsui Fudosan and Why Foreigners Come to Nihonbashi I was recently asked to give a talk to some employees of Mitsui Fudosan (Mitsui Real Estate) on why foreigners visit the greater Nihonbashi area. Over the past month or so whenever I have spotted foreigners in the area I have introduced myself and explained what I am doing and then asked people a series of questions, starting with where the are from. If they live here I go […]
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An interesting thing happened back in mid-December; thanks to the corona virus, my wife and I were able to eat at Sugita Sushi twice in a week (actually, the full name is Nihonbashi Kakigarachō Sushi Sugita, which is really way too much to write over and over). I had talked to Sugita san’s wife (Okamisan) sometime in November about making reservations, and she said there were plenty of openings and to give her a call. So my […]
Read moreSezanne I was recently invited to a pre-opening lunch at Sezanne, the new French restaurant located in the Four Seasons Hotel next to Tokyo Station. If the real meals are anything like the trial lunch we ate it won’t be long before Sezanne has a Michelin star. I’m not really a big fan of French cuisine, and I don’t know a lot about it, probably because I rarely eat it, at least French French cuisine rather than […]
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