Very Important Things When You Choose a Plate of Sushi at the Conveyer-Belt Sushi Bar

(1)MAKE HOT TEA BY YOURSELF!
Firstly, take a new tea cup around your table (It's always there.) , put green tea powder in it and put hot water in from tap in front of your table. This tap water always just boiled and too hot to drink soon.

During you wait your tea became good temprature,
look at a conveyre and signs to check points (2) to (4).

(2) KNOW CHEEP FROM EXPENSIVE !

The bill is calculated by counting the number and type of plates of the consumed sushi. Plates with different colors, patterns, or shapes have different prices, usually ranging from 100  to 500 yen. The cost of each plate is shown on signboards or posters in the restaurant. In general, cheap items come on plain plates, and the level of plate decoration is related to the price. The most expensive items tend to come on gold colored plates. Expensive items may be placed on two plates, with the price being the sum of the prices of the individual plates. Some conveyor belt sushi restaurant chains, such as Kappa Sushi or Otaru Zushi, have a fixed price of 100 yen for every plate.



(4) KNOW FRESH FROM OLD!
The kaiten sushi (the conveyer belt sushi bar) system has its weak points.
The biggest is that one can never be certain how long a partilar plate has been on the merry-go-round conveyer belt.

The important thing is to look at them closely and you'll see
that the surface of the old one appears dry.




(5)Even if there is nothing you want to eat on the conveyer , NEVER GIVE UP !
When you can not find your favorite, call sushi chefs and order like
 " Sumimasen, (Please),   maguro (tuma) ! "

If you do not know Japanese name, refer to below:
 ◆Engulish-Japanese
     ark shell-akagai
     cucumber sushi roll - kappa maki
     eel -anago
     egg-tamago
     horse mackerel-aji
     mackerel -saba
     octopus-tako
     pacific saury -sanma *only Autum
     sardine-iwashi
     sarmon (normal) sarmon
                  (fatty) -toro sarmon
     sarmon roe-ikura
     scallop -hotate
     sea urchin eggs -uni
     shrimp (raw) -ama ebi
                 (boiled) -mushi ebi
     squid (tube)- ika
               (legs)- geso
     tuna (normal red) -maguro
             (medium fatty)-chu toro
             (fatty)-toro
      tuna minced with welsh onion leaves -negi toro
      yellowtail (hatchery)-hamachi
                       (wild)-buri

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These Japanese brand clothes are only 100 yen in Tokyo !!

Truly, I don't want to let many people know this valuable shop
because I want find good clotes from many variety of assortment...but, today I inform this finaly.

I could get these clothes at the secondhand shop in Asakusabashi.
Uniqlo is not cheap any more in Japan!

Name of the Shop: Tresure Select
Opening Time:10am-7pm

Location Map:
 the shop in Asakusa

the shop in Asakusabashi














See near spots around this

Value Bus Tour :cheaper than visiting by public transportation

"NY Apple"-like tourists bus in Tokyo is the Hato-Bus.

They have a lot of tours everyday but you won't feel much merit in using the tourist bus to get to easy access land marks.But for certain sopts to see, the Hato-Bus is the best way to go.


The valuable route they offer is:

  "Tokyo One-Hour Tour on Open Top Bus / Panolamic Tokyo"

 Route:
Tokyo Station-Imperial Palace-National Diet Building-Tokyo Tower-Rainbow Bridge-Odaiba-Odaiba Ferris Wheel-Ginza
    
 These spots are very famous but you do not need to enter inside, so you can save time to experiencce deeply in other sights.
  And you can access free wi-fi on the bus.

   Adult 1,600 yen
   Child (4-11 years) 800 yen

   for more imformation, visit Hato Bus Official HP

Which beef bowl shoud we eat? Reccomended Ranking of Fast Beef Bowl Restaurant

Beef bowls are loved not only by Japanese but by foreigners who visit Japan as well.
There are beef bowl franchises that have advanced into overseas markets and which have been introduced via video sites so that it seems like the beef bowl has acquired the “typical Japanese food” status.

 Here I present the 4 most popular “gyudon” chain stores in order descending recomended.

These all are low prices, but each tasts are differnt.

Which beef bowl do you want to try?

 

*all prices are as of 13 Feb.2016

 

1. YOSHINOYA

The best beef bowl franchise is “Yoshinoya”, an old-established restaurant.

It has a strong preference of using imported beef from the United States and selected seasoning to maintain the same recipe from the start, offering an unchanging product which seems to be the secret why it is so loved by the public.

 

 

2.MATSUYA

For those that know of Matsuya, they may think that is not a beef bowl restaurant,

yet more of a general eatery, however, Matsuya has its origins in beef bowls and is its flagship dish.

Yet they do have a wide variety of menus besides just beef bowls,

such as yaki-niku (grilled meat), hamburger steaks and curry,

and if you are eating in, they serve you miso-soup

even though you only ordered just a beef bowl.
By the way, for a little bit of trivia, in Matsuya they call it “gyu-meshi (rice with beef)” instead of calling it a beef bowl.

 

 

3.NAKAU 

“Nakau”: the restaurant with the catch phrase of serving “food topped rice bowls

and Kyoto-style noodles” has a variety of menus from noodles,

buckwheat noodles, katsu-don (bowl of rice with pork cutlets served on top), 

oyako-don (bowl of rice with egg, chicken and vegetables) to even curry rice.

Among those, the beef bowl of Nakau was improved in February, 2014

changing its name to “Gyu-suki don” (sukiyaki beef rice bowl).

My favorite in Nakau is not beef bowl but Oyako-don.

 

 

4.SUKIYA

The beef bowl of Sukiya has a variety of toppings and sizes.
There is a variety of green onions, ponzu mixed with grated radish, okra with grated yam, green onion with raw egg, pickled mustard leaf with pollack roe, 3 types of melting cheese mixed together, Korean pickles and vegetables with rich miso etc..
Other than just beef bowls, they also serve tekka-don (tuna bowl), sumibi buta-don (char-grilled pork bowl), yaki tori-don (grilled-chicken bowl), tori soboro-don (minced chicken bowl) and chuka-don (bowl of rice with stir-fried vegetables and seafoods, Chinese style).

 

 

 

How to choose cheap coffee shops for different purposes?

There are so many self-serve coffee shops in Japan.
A leisurely cup of carefully blended coffee is one of the great plesures.
Then, how do we Japanese select shops in cases?
Let's see here!

   1.for coffee after tasty Italian lunch
   2.for long time break with coffee
   3.for smoking with coffee
   4.for the cheepest tasty coffee


1.for coffee after tasty Italian lunch - - - PRONTO

This is no longer a just coffee shop!
Its' taste of pasta is much more delicious than general italian restaurants.
Particulaly, I recomend "Basil flavored pasta with shrimp and avocado" and
"Pasta with tomato flavored cream sauce and shrimp".


2.for long time break with coffee - - - Mister Donut

You can drink coffee as much as you want !!
by just telling a clerk  "okawari". (Okawari means one more cup full.)
and you can say okawari many times needed.
The cost is only for the first cup 270JPY.


 3.for smoking with coffee - - - Doutor

Japan was one of the more smoker-friendly countries,
but thoese days many coffee shops from U.S. and E.U. prohibit smoking.
In Doutors, there are smoking areas without an exception.
What is more, their foods are so tasty ( especially "Milano Sand A") .

 4.for the cheepest tasty coffee - - - Caffe Veloce

You may have heard that everything in Japan is smaller and more expencive,
 but perhaps they don't know Japanese valuable shops such as Cafe Veloce.
 You can drink a good mug-cup of coffee by only 190JPY here.
I also recomend a coffee jerry with ice cream 300JPY.


YOU CAN FIND THESE SHOPS ALL OVER TOKYO★

Starbucks? Turrys? of course there are, but I don't go there
because they are not attract me compared with those shops above.

Cheap! Capsule Hotels in Tokyo

The futunistic beds of cupsule hotel are about the size of a single matless,
but come equipped with television, radio and an alarm clock.

When you sleep in one of these cupsules, you feel like a worm
in a cocoon-cramped but oddly comfortable.


◆Shinjuku Kuyakusho-mae Capsule Hotel


location:Shinjyuku
Price: 2000JPY～

◆Hotel Asakusa & Capsule


location:Asakusa
Price: 1500JPY～




In recent days, stylish capsule hotels are gradually increase.
◆Centurion Cabin and Spa - Ladies Only


location:Akasaska
Proce: 3700JPY～

◆Grids Hostel Lounge Akihabara
 
location:Akihabara
Price: 3700JPY～

◆First Cabin Haneda Airport
  
location:Haneda
Price: 4500JPY～

Accomodations: less than 4000 yen /per night /per peoson for stay in the center of Tokyo

Accomodation fee has been more and more expencive in Japan in recent days.
Even Japanese people can no longer pay it easily any more.

well then, how can they pass a night if they miss a last train to home?

NOTICE:
・These are only for peoson who do not mind hospitality.
・These have shower facilities and spaces for lay down.
・These do not accept reservation.

 1. the Sleeping Box Unit( Capsule Hotel ) - - -about 2500 yen

 

see more information about capsule hotels
 

 2. all night Sauna - - - about 2500 yen *only for men


 3. all night Spa - - -about 4000yen



 4. Love Hotel - - -about 8000yen for 2 people *only for couple



 5.all night video room - - -about 2000 yen *only for men


 6. all night internet cafe (private booth) - - - about 3000 yen

Japanese 100yen souvenires

Why these item are all for only 100yen!? …I don't know!!


a traditional folding fan


chop stics


 
 envelops by Japanes papers


Fujiyama Items !

  
"tenugui"(traditional hand towel made by cotton)


 Hello Kitty



green tea flavored confecencies


 nail sticker



where can we get them? =====＞see here

All for 100JPY! the biggest 100yen shop in Tokyo

the modest 100yen coin has gained new stature at this new shop forum, where buyers can pick up anything for a single coin.



The whole 7th floor of this big building is 100 yen shop "Daiso in Kinshicho"

This shop is the biggest 100yen shop in Tokyo. You can  get anything for 100yen here!


See!  This is assortment of only ties.

and SEE THE PAGE:  Japanese Sourvenires that I recomend for 100yen



How to Get there? ====＞It's in front of the North gate of the JR Kinshicho Stasion.

 

Adress:
東京都墨田区錦糸２－２－１アルカキット錦糸町店７Ｆ
7F Arka-Kit Kinshicho, 2-2-1 Kinshi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo.