Category: Tokyo Boy

Kouryu must be a famous shop, as the walls were covered with these autographs by well-known visitors.

As I mentioned yesterday, Kouryu lets you choose your toppings, and you can see the selection here. The 100 yen coin you see in the upper right hand corner is for my mini-beer. That’s pretty damn cheap, and was perfect accompaniment to the ramen.

I met up with Robert last night in Nakameguro, and he brought me to this absolutely great ramen shop called Kouryu. One very neat thing about the place was that you customized your bowl by filling in a small questionnaire as you sat down. There’s a shop in Ikebukuro, Genbu, that does the same, but…

A poster at a train station.

A bunch of police officers waiting at a crosswalk in Ikebukuro.

Saw this huge poster at the train station on my way home from work tonight. It advertises the release of a new edition of Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic manga series AKIRA. Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.

A big intersection in Ebisu.

The Jordi cafe’s sign.

Jutton in Ikebukuro. Had a bowl of shouyu-tonkotsu ramen there yesterday. It wasn’t awful, but the taste was just, well, plain. Don’t think I’ll be going there again. Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.

A blue bicycle.