As Laios once said, “You don’t have meals when you’re bored; eat well, sleep well, then we can finally do what we want to do”. We’re gonna walk a lot in this trip, so we have to eat a lot!!!

List of foods to try

Meals

• Takoyaki
• Staff food court at Shinjuku
  • Regular menu (It’s in Japanese but you can see price range)
  • They have regular menu and weekly menu.
• Torikizoku
  • Everything is roughly 300 yen!
  • Yasmin approved
  • I will make booking, this is where we will meet Miki and Sani
  • They offer Yakitori and other Izakaya (Japanese pub) menu which is like a tapas, it comes in small dishes.
• Kura-zushi
  • It’s sushi but on belt conveyer
  • They have noodles and fries as well
  • This is a chain sushi place, v popular. On weekends there is a queue and the wait could be more than 40 minutes…! I will make booking

Sweets

• (Insert some Japanese sweet)

Drinking place

Sour - a drink that has vodka and any soda as a mixer. Classic drink here.

• 出世サワー Promotion sour
  • 390 yen per glass. You get the smallest glass, and as you repeat the order the glass size increases. The more you drink the better the worth!
  • Video of how it works (Japanese but you can tell the size from this video)
  • Multiple restaurants does this. Price and size varies depending on what store you go to
• Omoide yokocho @druv
  • A nostalgic building complex area. They have small izakaya.
    • Fun fact: This place was estabilshed right after the WW2 ended. It started as a dark market that sold meals!
  • Located near the infamous KFC where THE breakup happened <3
• 捻り蛇口
  • An onsen themed pub!
  • For some reason drinks (sour) comes out of tap.
• Shinjuku golden alley
  • Lots of bars here. The alley gives a 80s city pop vibe.
  • If I remember correctly some places had live music!
• 6年4組 渋谷分校
  • It’s an elementary school themed eating&drinking place
  • You can try classic Japanese school lunch and also drink!
• Dagashi bar
  • You can try dagashi (cheap classic Japanese snacks) and drink at the same time!
  • They also offer small dishes like octpus sausage (dw it’s just a sausage shaped like octpus)