Tag: restaurant

  • Restaurant Review: Oicho – charcoal grilled yakitori

    Restaurant Review: Oicho – charcoal grilled yakitori

    Oicho is a fun, reasonably-priced  upscale yakitori restaurant where you grill it yourself over a charcoal brazier at your table. The location is good, just west of the Matsubara Bridge over the Kamo River. Going with your friends to a hole-in-the-wall yakitori restaurant with red lanterns and no elbow room and grease coating everything can…

  • Some notes on Japanese Etiquette

    Some notes on Japanese Etiquette

    When traveling, people sometimes leave their common sense at their hometown airport to be picked up when they return home. You may be on holiday but this does not excuse rude behavior Japan is a G8 country and prices are comparable to those of the other countries. The Golden Rule Always ask yourself, “Would I…