Taste
Restaurants, cafés and izakaya — and what to order when you get there.
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Minimal Tokyo: Bean-to-Bar Chocolate That Tastes Like One Place on Earth
A Japanese wife in Nagoya — Updated July 2026. I walked out of Minimal with a ¥740 chocolate…
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Dorayaki, Decoded: Tokyo’s Gong-Shaped Sweet, from Edo to Doraemon
A local girl in Nagoya — Updated July 2026. The sweet every Japanese kid grows up with, explained…
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Nama-Donuts in Tokyo: Inside the i’m donut ? Boom (2026 Edition)
Written from Nagoya — Updated July 2026. I carried our haul through Harajuku and the plain one did…
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Tokyo Matcha Stands: What to Order and What It Costs (2026 Edition)
Nagoya, born and raised — Updated July 2026. Every price below is read straight off the menu board…
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Tokyo Sweets Crawl: Matcha Stands to the Emperor’s Anpan
Organic matcha stands, bean-to-bar chocolate, viral donuts and the 150-year-old bakery that invented anpan.
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Kaiten Sushi Made Easy: First Plate to Ordering Like a Local
Conveyor-belt sushi is the most beginner-friendly restaurant in Japan: no talking, every price visible, dinner glides past at…