Tōfu アーカイブ : Food Adventures Japan

08/14/2025

Tōfu ya Ryōri Yomoyamo 豆腐屋料理　四方八方

Last night, after talking about it for several months, my wife and I finally walked a few meters down the street to try the fairly new restaurant Tōfu ya Ryōri Yomoyamo. It is located in Ningyōchō, on Amazakiyokochō in the space formerly occupied by Sukeroku, a long-time yakitori restaurant that closed its doors a while back. And despite the presence of tōfu and yuba making equipment in a small room facing the sidewalk, the cuisine turned out […]

11/13/202411/13/2024

Tōfu

My wife frequently says that the Ningyōchō of today is not the same as it was ten years ago. Or even five years ago. And nothing, in my opinion, epitomizes that sentiment more than the loss of our neighborhood tōfu shops. When I moved here fifteen some years ago there were six tōfu shops within a few minutes walk, one in Kakigarachō that was the first to go, perhaps because the tōfu wasn’t really all that good; […]