Owner-chef Toru Kawano's cooking is confident, modern, vibrant and colorful. Above all, it is intensely flavorful, just as you'd expect from a chef who has worked with some of the top names in French cuisine, from Guy Savoy and Georges Blanc to Joel Robuchon.
Kaiserhof does a number of German classics, such as eisbein (pickled ham hock), spatzle (pasta-like dumplings) and a whole lot of wurst (sausages). The latter are served on hot cast-iron pans with sauerkraut, flavored -- appropriately -- with caraway seeds. There's apfelstrudel (apple strudel) ...
It's a boutique bar that dispenses not wine or draft beer but shots of premium fruit vinegar.
Tokyo, of course, operates at a faster pace than the old capital, and the delicate Kyoto cuisine served at Shakunage is tailored to those demands, especially at lunchtime.
Review excerpt: This is Ginza Kagari Honten as it should have been from the outset: Classy, polished and much better equipped for fame and the inevitable influx.
Ohata’s noodles are every bit as refined as the setting — so elegant that he calls them “soba,” which is short for chūka soba (“Chinese noodles”), rather than mere ramen. Both his shio (salt) and shoyu soba are light and refreshing, perfectly suited to ...
Sushi Iwa makes things easy. For a start, the entrance is at street level. Better yet, it is immediately recognizable from its classic wabi-sabi (tea-ceremony style) look, hempen noren curtain, bamboo trellis window and small iron lantern at foot level. Inside, it feels relaxed ...
At the top of an imposing flight of stairs inside the shiny new Nissay Marunouchi Garden Tower, Beck's eponymous high-end dining room is chic and elegant with a heavyweight wine cellar and waiters in two-tone beige-and-black uniforms. The quiet, restful ambience is perfect for ...
In charge of the grill is Tomohiko Abe, Ikegawa's youthful right-hand man from Torishiki. He is working side by side with Yasunori Yamamoto, whose background is in Italian cuisine. It sounds hybrid, but it works wonderfully.
Founded in 1923, it isn’t the oldest oden shop in Tokyo — that honor is generally ascribed to the 101-year-old Otafuku across town in Asakusa — but it is certainly among the most popular. You can tell by the clientele it attracts. From middle-aged ...
| Party Name | Total (pre-election seats) |
Electoral districts | Proportional representation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | 316 (198) | 249 | 67 | |
| JIP | 36 (34) | 20 | 16 | |
| CRA | 49 (172) | 7 | 42 | |
| DPP | 28 (27) | 8 | 20 | |
| Sanseito | 15 (2) | 0 | 15 | |
| Mirai | 11 (0) | 0 | 11 | |
| JCP | 4 (8) | 0 | 4 | |
| Reiwa | 1 (8) | 0 | 1 | |
| Tax Cuts | 1 (5) | 1 | 0 | |
| CPJ | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | |
| SDP | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | |
| Minor parties | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 4 (10) | 4 | 0 |
