kkk 7 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Roppongi or Omotesando? Has anyone been to the new one at Omotesando. I feel like I've been the amount of times I've seen it on tv and everywhere else. Link to post Share on other sites
TheOrange 0 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Poor old Odaiba. It doesn't get much of a shout these days does it. Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 It doesn't matter which would win, both are Mori's project. I liked that old apartment in Omotesando better than Omotesando hills. I think it had more atmosphere. But it was too old to be there, so Shikataga nai desune... I think Roppongi becomes better place to visit after Roppongi hills but I don't like that tower building design and realized why. Because its four corners are rounded, I realized I don't like rounded corner buidlings and Izumi garden building in Roppongi Ichome is more like my taste. Trendy spot in Tokyo is always moving around. The next big project is "Tokyo Midtown". http://www.tokyo-midtown.com/en/main.html Toyosu is going to become like Odaiba as well. Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Not another one....! I'm not sure if I'm game to walk into Omotesando Hills. I think I'll stay on the other side of the road and hang out at Good Honest Grub, one of my favourite restaurants instead.... much friendlier vibe... Link to post Share on other sites
woywoy 0 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 What and whereabouts is "Good Honest Grub" Sunrise? I have never been there ... Have had many meals at HARAJUKU GYOZA but never been to the restaurant you talk about here. Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 http://www.goodhonestgrub.com I've never been to Harajuku Gyoza, sounds good. Let's hook up some day for gyoza and carrot cake. edit: er, maybe not in the same meal.... Link to post Share on other sites
woywoy 0 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 It is great Sunrise ... Beer, gyoza, rice, amazing bean shoots with spicy mince meet and excellent cucumber with miso/sesame pastey stuff. Awesome. All of this and you get out of it for under 1000yen/person. http://www.restaurants-news.com/shokudogai/2004/12/post_17.html Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 I'm nihongo illiterate. Is there a map? Or can you describe where it is. I eat almost no meat but I do like gyoza. Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Did the Good Honest Grub move to Harajuku from Ebisu? I remember the carrot cake there was too sweet to me. La Boheme and Zest there had closing party Friday night. I heard that building was going to be torn down. Where is the Comedy Store now?? Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 What? Someone who eats chocolate for lunch found that carrot cake too sweet? (I don't like things too sweet myself...) No, they didn't move the Grub, they closed the Ebisu branch last Xmas. Very sad actually, that was very convenient. La Bohime and Zest closed down? Where? Nishi Azabu? Comedy Store is now at Crocodile, on Meiji Dori about halfway between Harajuku and Shibuya. I guess you heard about the fire at Oh God. Link to post Share on other sites
LiquidX 0 Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Good old Odaiba would surely win! Is this new Omotesando one getting the vibes and reputation Odaiba and Roppongi had? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Where are these places? I've never heard of them. Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Sunrize the Gyoza place is really close to Grub. Just turn left at the post office on the way to Grub and you will find it on your left hand after 10 steps. I also go a lot at the Tai place next to the Gyoza. Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Quote: Originally posted by LiquidX: Good old Odaiba would surely win! Is this new Omotesando one getting the vibes and reputation Odaiba and Roppongi had? I can't understand how you can compare Roppongi and Omotesando to Odaiba. Omotesando hills used be Dojunkai apartment. Dojunkai apartments were built for homeless people in Tokyo after Kanto earthquake in 1924. It was really pretty apartment. The scale of Omotesando hills project is smaller than Roppongi hills or Odaiba but its on a prime location and symbolic enough. So they didn't need a tower building there. My concern is about Delongi cafe in Omotesando hills. Espresso was 210yen and Cappucino was 290yen in Kanda but they are now 250yen and 330yen in Omotesando! I'm wondering if they closed down one in Kanda or it's still there. I have to check it out. Living in Tokyo for 4years and I feel like I'm a Tokyo Otaku now... Ocean, when was the last time you were in Tokyo? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 I can't remember exactly slow. 4 years ago maybe. I keep getting TS Eliot moments when I'm there that I can't shake off until I get to the next prefecture. People in Matsuyama get very excited about going to Tokyo. They boast about it for several weeks before and after they go. And anybody hearing them begins to wear a wistful, envious look. It's funny in a sad sort of way. But we have a half-finished Ando Tadao building here now, so we're less imo than... than... Kochi! Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Where I used to be (Gifu) they used to get all excited about Tokyo as well, it was quite amusing. I wonder why. I much prefer Gifu myself. Link to post Share on other sites
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