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The location—a traditional house with private tatami-floored rooms overlooking a carp pond—is as beautiful as the food". [9] According to Butterfield & Robinson's The Slow Road Luxury Travel Blog, Tofuya Ukai is among Tokyo's best restaurants. [10] The Lonely Planet guide describes Tofuya Ukai as "One of Tokyo's most gracious restaurants". [11]
Though the term ochaya literally means "tea house", the term follows the naming conventions of buildings or rooms used for Japanese tea ceremony, known as chashitsu (茶室, lit. "tea room"); as such, though tea is served at ochaya as an ordinary beverage, it is not, unlike teahouses and tearooms found throughout the world, its sole purpose.
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan (Japanese: 西山温泉慶雲館, lit. ' Keiun-era Nishiyama Hot Spring') is an onsen ryokan (Japanese hot spring inn) in Yamanashi Prefecture . Founded in 705 by Fujiwara no Mahito, it is a prime example of shinise ("long-established business") and perhaps the oldest independent company in operation following the ...
Palace Hotel Tokyo. Palace Hotel Tokyo (Japanese: パレスホテル東京) is a luxury hotel located in the Marunouchi business district of Tokyo, Japan.The hotel has 290 guestrooms and facilities, including 10 restaurants and bars, a spa, a fitness center, swimming pool and a business center.
Afuri; Ajisen Ramen – Japanese ramen soup fast food chain; Bincho – a London-based Japanese restaurant styled on the traditional izakayas found throughout Japan; Hokka Hokka Tei – a bento take-out chain with over 2,000 franchises and company-owned branches throughout Japan
Depending on the izakaya, customers either sit on tatami mats and dine from low tables, as in the traditional Japanese style, or sit on chairs and dine from tables. Many izakaya offer a choice of both as well as seating by the bar. Some izakaya restaurants are also tachi-nomi style, literally translated as "drinking while standing". [13]
Maid cafés (Japanese: メイド喫茶 or メイドカフェ, Hepburn: meido kissa or meido kafe) are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan and Taiwan. In these cafés, waitresses, dressed in maid costumes, act as servants, and treat customers as masters (and mistresses) as if they were in a private home, rather than ...
The Kayabukiya Tavern (居酒屋 かやぶき, izakaya kayabuki) was a traditional-style Japanese "sake-house" restaurant that was located in the city of Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo, Japan. [1] [2] The tavern's owner, Kaoru Otsuka, owns two pet macaque monkeys who were employed to work at the location. [3]