Japan’s food culture is extraordinary. It also has a booking problem — specifically, for visitors who don’t speak Japanese. The restaurants that appear on English-language travel sites are, almost by definition, the ones accessible to tourists. The places that local food writers actually discuss — the counter-seat sushi bars that open three evenings a week, […]
Read More →Okinawa has its own food culture — and it’s worth going out of your way for. Ishigaki beef, Agu pork, ocean-view restaurants where the East China Sea fills the window at sunset — these aren’t the kinds of meals you stumble into. The best ones require advance reservations, made in Japanese, by phone. Most visitors […]
Read More →Japan has some of the best restaurants in the world. It also has some of the most difficult reservation systems to navigate if you don’t speak Japanese. Most top-rated restaurants don’t have English booking systems. Many don’t even have websites. The only way to secure a table is to call during specific hours, in Japanese, […]
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