so right behind me as ajinomoto stadium
also known as tokyo stadium so a lot of
major sporting events in Tokyo are held
at this Stadium so Toby Tokyo Station is
a closest station to the stadium but
there's not a lot to actually do here so
I wanted to take the time out and kind
of share with you guys some of my
personal favorite things to do and eat
in the tofu area and with the Rugby
World Cup just around the corner as well
as Olympics this is a perfect time to do
this video let me show you guys how to
get here
so TOEFL area is a bit isolated from the
city but access isn't so bad from
Shinjuku the keio line will take you
straight to choke lu station and tobi
tokyo station easy peasy
so here's the skinny if you're planning
to visit Tokyo stadium first you're
gonna need to get the Tokyo Tokyo
Station via the keio line once you get
to the station gate take the north exit
and go down the stairs or escalator
don't worry there's signs over there so
you won't miss it plus if you're going
on gameday you can be a simple salmon
and follow the crowds after passing the
rotary all that there's left to do is
keep going straight on the main road for
about five minutes once you make it to
the bridge
it's game time by the way you can catch
the cherry blossoms if you're here in
the spring on this Main Street you'll
find many family restaurants and chain
restaurants so if you're looking for a
quick meal or want to do some pre-gaming
these spots are an inexpensive solution
or if you're really trying to do it on
the cheap there are some convenience
along the way number two massage you
know in the muddy park so if you want to
chill spot before the game there's that
giant Park near the stadium and this is
kind of a nice place if you want to have
a picnic have a drink before or after
the game really wide open area there's
even a pond here and then just to my
left there's an airport so you can see
planes and helicopters land throughout
the day so this place is quite a
distance from ajinomoto stadium it's
about a 15 to 20 minute walk in between
you'll see a bunch of soccer fields and
baseball fields which you'll probably
want to go to but you'll actually want
to just stay on the Main Street because
if you go in there you might get lost a
little bit stay on the Main Street until
you get to this park and just a place to
hang out for the day
number three tofu station so in front of
tofu station right now and it's actually
the largest station next to ajinomoto
Stadium what you'll find in this area
it's kind of like a mini shibuya meaning
that it has everything you would need
like an electronic store like big camera
it has a park own shopping center and
right above the train station there's a
mall so if you wanted to do some
shopping then this is kind of like the
place you would want to do it and
actually you might find yourself saying
in this area it doesn't get crowded as
the other city centers because it is a
little on the outskirts of Tokyo and
it's actually pretty cool because it has
everything you would need to VU station
is a major hub station for the area not
only for trains but for buses and taxis
as well and look how just wide open this
area is in fact it's only a 5 minute
train ride from Toby tucky station so
it's another great spot for pregame and
postgame celebrations there's even a
wide-open square for you and your
friends to do your happy dance and
what's nice about the tofu station area
is there's so many places to eat and
drink that's fairly inexpensive like for
example there's a Cece curry place
that's like a chain store that's really
nice let me take you guys to some chain
stores that are further like inexpensive
so just right here behind me you'll see
a Johnathan's it's very similar to your
kind of family restaurant I like it Jen
used it-- also what you'll find is uh
you'll see a what tummy you get like a
sermon of different Japanese foods like
a keto de sushi so it's kind of like fun
to test out all the different foods that
they have and just right next to the
what Tommy and Jonathan's store you have
this like a bigger building right here
if you can see right there it has a size
area which is more of like an Italian
family restaurant but yeah it's really
really cheap in this building you'll
find like Osho which is kind of like
Osaka version of Chinese food so they
have things like gyoza ramen and
obviously you can have beer there as
well and just below it you have a Mikado
which is another kind of like ease up
higher ranking bars continue on like
what's nice about this area it's just
littered with drinking either kaya bars
and just like cheap family restaurants
and just walking past sized area there's
another building right next to it with
an old toy yeah what you'll find with
Toya is that it has a lot of Japanese
set meals so you'll get like grilled
fish Hamburg kaki fry which is like
fried oysters and if you're looking for
cheap yakitori which is grilled chicken
on skewers this is a spot hoodie he's oh
you've seen by other videos they have
cheap chicken skewers meat skewers and
they have really cheap beers so
definitely worth stopping here and don't
worry if you miss any of these spots
like always all the links are in the
description by the way if you want to
get some alcohol to party at your hotel
big camera has quite a huge selection
check out all this Opel check it out
it's Keita though and his dad number 410
Jean Dodi shot a guy
so keto is a very famous spooky old
manga she gave in Mizuki and he's from
this area so in his honor you can find
Keith Errol characters all throughout
tangent dotty
I love how this place has all these like
little eASIC ayahs is all drinking bars
to get yakitori but it's freakin awesome
there's this horror moon izakaya here
there's a Chinese restaurant right here
aha kata izakaya right here there's a
new town izakaya man it's just like so
many places to drink and eat and even a
Western bar right here so we just passed
that Main Street an hour walking towards
food at ten genes shrine number five
food at tanjung shrine so tangent dirty
shooting guy pizza food at tanjung
shrine which enshrines who cannot be ko
and I know Mikoto
the god of Medicine onsen and Saki
making damn kinda sounds like he's into
drugs alcohol and hot baths
it also enshrines it sugawara no meat is
on it he was known to be super smart and
also became a cabinet minister so the
shrine is known to have spiritual
educational qualities so when you go to
a shrine you wonder first to go to that
a museum which is a place where you wash
your hands and I clean yourself off
before you go in
it's really quite simple what you do is
wash your left hand using the ladle and
then the right hand after that you rinse
your mouth
don't touch your mouth directly on the
ladle though and pour the water into the
drain then put back the ladle now we can
shrine to our hearts content
number six food options my favorite
there are decent restaurant options in
the tofu area but to be honest nowhere
near the selection that you would find
in central Tokyo but let me give you
some recommendations starting with a
Ronco soba shop yep
all right so we got one goes over this
place I haven't done a video before but
now I wanted to kind of do it because
look how awesome this place is so the
regional set starts with three Blanco
syllables but you can add as many balls
as you want for additional food so I got
four so basically you have your regular
soba noodles and the bottom be the
choose the different toppings and listen
here you have the heavy tempura which is
like a shrimp tempura and then you have
some nori on top I also threw down on
the nomicon mushrooms with grated daikon
wasabi stems and the SIUE which is a
vegetable fish cake alright so and this
is a service soup what you do is you
pour it in like this get all that
loveliness oh and it comes with a side
of toppings or flavored grated daikon
and chopped green onions it's okay if
you pour it all in because you're gonna
recycle this brach and the leftovers in
the next Bowl I have a soup in there I
have the green onions I got the tempura
and now we're gonna just hop at this
like it's my birthday because I feel
like it's my birthday it was like this
is such a special treat what an
unbeatable combination
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alright so here's the leftover soup that
I have and what I do I'm gonna put this
on here and what you do is you just pour
it just like that over it I forgot to
mention so this is a Sobel you but what
it is is the hot water that was used to
cook the soba and then you pour it into
here like so and you can see the white
goodness and there all the helping
really
and you have yourself kind of like your
own a bowl of soup at the end fantastic
leave it to the Japanese so you don't
waste anything in your meal Michael when
to stand around and got three bowls
natto quail egg and her'll yam toppings
next up taciturn niboshi ramen Pakatan
is the name of the original owner who
perfected that niboshi shoyu ramen broth
but who has now passed down the recipe
to his son you can even tell how
populated the shop is by the number of
celebrity signs on the wall so this is a
niboshi style ramen which means that the
broth is made out of me which is a
fish just smelly and you can like smell
that nice and gritty fish-like smell
like one of the kind that chashu itself
is quite thick there's not a lot of fat
cure three delicious and then you have
some member inside I'm not it though
because it some seaweed and then you
have a kind of like a medium noodle look
at that that looks so good let me just
take the first bite the umami is out of
this world what you'll find with this
soup so I've had like niboshi before and
sometimes there's been a little bit too
bitter for me but in this one it's just
nice and mellow umami of hip-hop's it's
very very flavorful in fact it's like
you don't feel like it's a junky ramen
like I love your ramen but it's just so
simple but the taste is so elegant it's
so refined that you know that they put a
lot of work in creating this drop some
others chashu is this it's so tender
just falling apart right now
oh it just disintegrates in your mouth I
just want to hit your tongue it just
dissipates you're looking for a good
ramen golden this is the ticket
wow that was a pretty awesome bowl of
Novosti ramen the thing is a lot of
people are some people I guess don't
like me ramen because it's
maybe too fishy for them but I have the
perfect solution because right next door
they have right here Tetsu and Tetsu
have already done a video on it and it's
a really awesome bowl of ramen so if you
don't like me bossy ramen and then my
recommendation is go here Tetsu another
option that tourists sometimes miss are
the restaurants in the park or
department store so it's nice about the
seventh floor parking area is that all
the restaurants have displays in front
so that you can see what kind of food
that you're actually gonna order before
you order it and this is my favorite
tonkatsu Subbotin you get all you can
eat cabbage salad and a decent cut so
here also
yep Anika Ichi is a decent choice for
barbecue and beers so now I've been
looking for a yakiniku place in our
barbecue place all of the meat here has
pictures so even though there's like no
English written on here prices and that
pictures are clear so for me I usually
get a pun show it's actually a beef
tongue quite like nice a really nice
also let's invest with another
governance autonomy the way I like about
the harami that it's kind of like in the
gross area it's like the middle portion
of the cow it's not like too hard it's
not too soft it's like kind of in the
middle it's like tender but it also has
kind of meaty so you get kind of like
all of the textures I also use the order
like a kimchi Modi is a there's like an
assortment of pickled spicy vegetables
and it's so delicious quick tour of
yakiniku just giving you more options
for you guys when you come on your trip
here all right let's just move on to the
next pot number seven your moody knows
that the ones in the this spot is from
my aunts and lovers it's about a
20-minute walk away from the station but
it's definitely worth it it's nearby
gene Daiichi temple so if you're in the
area then makes it even more convenient
that all said let me show you this old
school on send so this is a local lawn
tennis ball where you can enjoy natural
unsend with a unique alkaline sodium
chloride it makes the water a bit darker
than I'm used to but it means it has a
lot of minerals it even has an ashy you
you can use look how milky this water is
amazing
that's so you can't see it here because
the water is so milky but the bottom
here has stones in the bottom so when
you put pressure on your feet it kind of
massages it so from the outside looking
in this place it doesn't look like so
much but it's actually a pretty decent
onsen area when you go inside you'll
have the indoor once in but if you go
outside they have several different
baths almost like a dinky bath like
electrical battery so like there's like
different types that you're gonna
experience so and it was interesting
because the water was really really dark
and almost look like you're jumping into
like a pool of coffee is that dark also
although larger cuz it's not that teams
are no no this onsen small artsy decal
tattoos
seem to fall on gray area if you cover
it up or it's not so obvious they'll
probably look the other way
also this floor effect that brake area
but if you go up stairs ever full-on
dining area that I have some different
meals and stuff that you can try as well
in addition you can get massages so this
place is kind of like a full spa retreat
if you're looking or something like that
and the thing is this is not like your
words that your typical resort
extravagant once in this is a very very
local spot you feel like you got that
countryside feel
quite authentic also if you're not about
that walking life there's a bus stop
here from the station this one thing I
wanted to mention really quickly as you
can see behind me there's Tamagawa River
if you has gonna be here in October more
specifically October 27th 2019 they're
gonna have a huge firework show it runs
all along Tomica River which is right
behind me one thing to note along the
river there are gonna be some free spots
as well as some paid spots I'll leave a
link in the description so that you guys
can figure that out
but it should be a pretty awesome show
they run it every year one little
interesting fact about chofu this place
houses a lot of movie studios and
because of that it is almost known as I
kind of like a Hollywood and what you'll
find is that they take popular movies
and their soundtracks and they sync it
up to the fireworks so it should be a
pretty cool show to watch so if you're
here on October 27th then definitely
check it out and if you're a runner then
this place is perfect because they have
a running path just along the river
number nine gene dodgy tempo
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old school snacks here right in front of
the Din Tai Chi temple there's a bus
stop so it goes straight the tofu
station gets quite a bit of walk with me
at 28 25 minute walk from the station so
perfect and convenient I love it look at
this it's fall but it's falling its
falling though feels like fall vanyo
look at that there's a monster up there
this is kitaru cafe but it seems like
it's closed today yes I actually came
here on a Monday and unfortunately
Monday's are closed so don't be like me
and if you want to go to this Kyoto cafe
spot you should go on any other day but
Monday and look at a big advocate
jindagi is such a beautiful and
spiritual temple as you walk around the
area you realize there's a lot of trees
flowers and just a peaceful calming
atmosphere
Dean da Jie was founded in the year 733
and in shrines the water God ginger dial
it also houses several national
treasures such as a bronze statue of
Jacques annuitize and a masterpiece huh
cool sculpture temple itself is quite
large after visiting the main temple and
making a wish I checked out the
surrounding temples
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Jhin daddy is also known to be a sober
spot since the Edo period so you can
find many soba shops around the temple
so Skeeter Scott Tokyo lady was just
like what does that say on your shirt
I've said it so I have to explain to her
in Japanese that this is toe Tokyo I
just love being here look at that this
is even a traditional Japanese soba
restaurant just right there in fact
there's quite a bit of this quite a bit
they say hey Lucchese soba take you chi
means kind of like handmade soba so they
make it right on the spot and there's
just like so much to see and do you feel
like it an ancient Japan here everyone
is so nice here - I love it and now
we're we're on our way back to make it
to the bus stop because we've got a next
appointment that I'm just a super super
excited and stoked to show you guys
that's why I'm kind of in a rush right
now is I don't want to miss the bus
all right I can't wait to get to the
next spot
but we need to get on a shuttle bus from
boob I go on a station and number 10
Santo de Musashino brewery tour free
beer time glad you guys made it this far
into the video wow this is amazing so
excited so if you're in this area you
absolutely got to go to a free tour at
the Suntory brewery but make sure to
make reservations they even give you an
English translation device begins go
like this and listen to everything in
English I can't film inside it's all I
can show you is this
but basically you learn how they make
the perfect beer and at the end of the
70 minute tour you can have three full
glasses of beer and I'm talking real
glasses alright we finally made it to
the end and something the side we have
the regular beer we got the Masters
dream this is like that fear Malta al
virgin problem if you don't have a lot
of time after you get the three beers so
you got to be quick I've got to go drink
all three beers unfortunately I do it
for you guys though let me just drink
this
oh and what's also nice is if they give
you some pretzels here so you get like
these crap it's like little like pretzel
snacks well these are like nuts and
maybe like edamame actually got an extra
beer signup for our total because like
my clothes are getting all over there so
this could be an intense day for me at
the end you can pick up souvenirs at the
entrance shop to bring home before we go
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