There is place in Tokyo called Amazake Alley, a stretch of road from the exit of Ningyocho Station up to the Meiji Theatre. It was named after a shop that used to sell sweet sake here during the Meiji period (1868-1912). Over the years, this [...]
I have a hot chocolate bucket list and I plan trips around this bucket list. My family is ok with that…in fact they are pretty happy about this obsession of mine. There are a handful of spots in Japan on that list and I have [...]
We spent three nights in Nakameguro, partly because it seemed like a fantastic neighbourhood and partly because I wanted to spend some time sipping hot chocolates at Green Bean to Bar. This may sound strange, but Nakameguro felt a bit like living in Paris. We [...]
I’ll clarify right off the bat that this is not really a review of a hot chocolate. While I went looking for a hot chocolate, I found something that, on this day, was even better. It wasn’t hot, and it didn’t have chocolate, but it [...]
Note: This is from a trip to Tokyo I made just before COVID. It is part of a series of posts about hot chocolates I had in Japan. I woke up this morning and decided to just start walking, in any direction, and see what [...]
If you are a chocolate lover, Tokyo might not seem like the most obvious place to visit. But it absolutely should be. Not only is Tokyo home to its own amazing home grown chocolatiers and chocolate makers, Tokyo is also where many of the French [...]
When you travel to a new city as a tourist it is easy to fill your trip with destinations that are the most popular with other tourists, the temples, the flashy lights. Sometimes these areas get so popular with the tourists that the locals themselves [...]
Tokyo is the most amazing city. You could spend a lifetime here and only scratch the surface of what it has to offer. On the very first day of our trip to Japan, we chose to set up in the gorgeous neighbourhood of Asakusa. Asakusa [...]