Forget 5-star restaurants and celebrity chefs - the best place in Japan to try Japanese food is in a department store
Japan, perhaps more than other destinations, is a place you travel with your taste buds.
There are so many local specialties, from sushi and yakitori to okonomiyaki and shumai, that it'd be a shame to not try everything Japan's culinary tradition offers.
The best place to find and sample Japanese food in Japan is actually in Tokyo's department stores.
Stores like Tokyu, Mitsukoshi, and Nihonbashi Takashimaya are like miniature cities unto themselves, spanning five or more floors and selling everything you can possibly imagine. But it's in the basement where the real magic happens.
There you will find Japan's depachikas, sprawling fancy food halls with all kinds of Japanese and international cuisine.
Here's what it's like:
- Colon cancer rates are rising in young people. If you have two symptoms you should get a colonoscopy, a GI oncologist says.
- I spent $2,000 for 7 nights in a 179-square-foot room on one of the world's largest cruise ships. Take a look inside my cabin.
- An Ambani disruption in OTT: At just ₹1 per day, you can now enjoy ad-free content on JioCinema
- Vegetable prices to remain high until June due to above-normal temperature
- RBI action on Kotak Mahindra Bank may restrain credit growth, profitability: S&P
- 'Vote and have free butter dosa': Bengaluru eateries do their bit to increase voter turnout
- Reliance gets thumbs-up from S&P, Fitch as strong earnings keep leverage in check
- Realme C65 5G with 5,000mAh battery, 120Hz display launched starting at ₹10,499
- JNK India IPO allotment date
- JioCinema New Plans
- Realme Narzo 70 Launched
- Apple Let Loose event
- Elon Musk Apology
- RIL cash flows
- Charlie Munger
- Feedbank IPO allotment
- Tata IPO allotment
- Most generous retirement plans
- Broadcom lays off
- Cibil Score vs Cibil Report
- Birla and Bajaj in top Richest
- Nestle Sept 2023 report
- India Equity Market