Shinagawa

Review excerpt: Kerala no Kaze II offers a small tiffin menu (a la carte items), including idli (rice cakes), vada (savory deep-fried donuts), uppma (semolina porridge), plus some of the finest dosa pancakes in the city.

Review excerpt: The signature Shoyu ramen at Homemade Ramen Muginae is deep, rich, hearty, warming. The Nibora — that’s short for niboshi ramen — is lighter but equally satisfying.

Archi-Depot is Japan’s first museum dedicated to architectural models At close to 450 sq. meters it houses over 100 storage shelves, each filled with models by Japan-based architectural firms. You’ll find structures by Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, Atsushi Kitagawa, Tadao Ando and many other ...

Review excerpt: Unagi Fujita is a venerable ryōtei (traditional high-class restaurant) based in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan’s de facto unagi capital, thanks to the eel farms in nearby Lake Hamanako. The restaurant already has a branch in western Tokyo; now it has arrived in the ...

Review excerpt: Hazama is self-taught and has even entered pizza competitions in Italy. He prefers to follow his own path, rather than any Neapolitan orthodoxy, as you can tell from his pizzas at Pizzeria Bakka M’unica: one includes salsiccia (sausage) and hanjuku (soft-boiled) egg, ...