Happy New Year 2024: "A blissful New Year's celebration with the exquisite and magnificent 'Suiryu' Osechi box, supervised by Ajimano, a Kyoto cuisine restaurant in Okazaki, Kyoto."

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"Toyohashi Sushi Mantaro": Enjoy the bounty of Mikawa Bay with carefully selected sake and sushi handcrafted by a sophisticated chef.

We had dinner at "Mantaro Sushi," located on a street corner in a residential area not far from Aichi University Station in Toyohashi! This sushi restaurant was opened 43 years ago, on September 1, 1975, by the owner, Akihiro Takemoto, and his wife, Yaeko. Currently, his son, Okura (D...), who trained in Tokyo, runs the restaurant.

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The tonkatsu (pork cutlet) made with three types of sterile, crossbred pork from the Kikuya restaurant, run by the second-generation owner, is exquisite!

Located along Himekaido Street, the three-story business inn "Kikuya" was originally opened by the previous owner as a Japanese restaurant specializing in tonkatsu (pork cutlets) on the first floor. However, after his son trained at "Sushi Han Airo" in Handayama, he took over the business, now offering both sushi and Japanese cuisine...

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Sushijin, a noteworthy Etchu-style sushi restaurant in Toyama that continues to evolve, is characterized by its unique rice made with red vinegar.

"Sushijin" is a restaurant specializing in "Etchu-mae sushi," where you can enjoy delicious seafood from Etchu Toyama prepared using Edo-style techniques. The owner, Izumi Kimura, originally worked in design in Tokyo, but her love of sushi led her to open this restaurant—a rare occurrence in the sushi world...

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Kisaku Sushi, featuring natural yuzu citrus, offers lunch that carries on the techniques and flavors of Tosa, inherited from the previous generation.

Located just off the narrow road in front of the Mikatahara Driving School along Route 257 (Himekaido), Kisaku Sushi is a sushi restaurant where you can enjoy refreshing sushi rice made with yuzu vinegar containing natural yuzu, a product of the Tosa region's climate. Perhaps because the previous owner, Misoroku Uesugi, was from Kochi Prefecture...

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I had a birthday lunch at Sushi Kanesaka Honten, a two-Michelin-starred sushi restaurant in Ginza, after returning to Japan.

Upon returning from Italy, the first place I headed was Ginza. On Saturdays, Ginza Chuo-dori becomes a pedestrian zone, allowing you to walk confidently down the middle of the street. Walking towards Mitsukoshi on Chuo-dori, I turned right at the Ginza 7-chome intersection, then right again at the second intersection, and immediately found it on the first basement floor of the Misuzu Building...

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