All-You-Can-Eat Pizza at Shakey's



When you went to eat out here in Japan, I think you wouldn't satisfied your appetite for its small amount of meal. Why don't you look for a restaurants which serves buffet and get full until you can't eat another bite with reasonable price? 

Shakey's, Although I hardly found out in the States is the American chain of restaurants which serves All-You-Can-Eat Pizza. You can have a meal with reasonable price especially at lunch time.

Find Locations:

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http://shakeys.jp/store/

Each locations has its own price and service hours.
Shibuya offers the cheaper price for Lunch Buffet than any other location.

Location/Shibuya
Day/Monday - Friday
Time/11:00am - 4:30pm
Fee/930 yen

How to order:
1.When you get into the restaurant, the staff ask you that how many person and       take your order. then you say "Viking" that mean Buffet in Japanese language.
2.Pay first for lunch fee.
3.The staff show you to the seat or if the staff ain't show you to the seat, you can     have a seat anywhere you want.
4.Go to the kitchen counter and take food.
5.Go back to the table and enjoy your meal

Pizza

Included Chili beans, Nachos, Cream soup, spaghetti, fried potato and curry

Included Salad

Refill free

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Suicide Train

Were you being late because of train accident? It must be make you feel a bit tired and stressed you out that you were not able to arrive your destination on time. I think someone tried to commit a suicide to clash into the train. The train that I use often causes resulting such a kind of accident that oblige me stuck for a while. It's happen quite oftern here in Tokyo.

Although everybody try to rush into the alternative transportation, I don't recommend it. The train which you try to get would've be over crowded.

Basically I don't take the chance and stay on the train, have a seated, take relax and fritter away the hour with texting buddy or collecting update information about accident for searching twitter. The train will be running again in fifty minutes. No matter you gonna be struggle to get another train which incredibly crowded at last and arrive at your destination, the time between plan A and B are not much different.

The most important thing you do are inform your situation that you had a train accident that someone tried to commit a suicide into the train that why you can not get there on time ASAP. Your partner feels that you are so poor in a harsh and extreme situation in sympathy. Definitely your partner understand about the thing.

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Tokyoite

When you arrive at Tokyo, Maybe you notice that people around you looks distant behavior.
Even though you met somebody's eyes, you ignored, no greeting. And never say the words even if someone bumped against you in the crowd. In Tokyo, we have no custom to strike up a conversation with stranger that makes our things not going as well as you thought.  Not only the westerners takes it stressful about that but also the Tokyoite like me feels stressful too.

I already accustomed the American way of life that I just hated those who acted like that.
When I was younger, I wanted to make them change such a socially awkward behavior that why I tried to strike up a conversation with stranger in public in order to change the Tokyoite. Unfortunately,  I couldn't make it because many people regards me as a kind of suspicious character. Eventually I closed my mind.

People in Osaka which is the second biggest city in the western part of Japan are not conservative unlike people in Tokyo. They are very friendly even if they don't know each other and has sense of humor. They always thinking make someone laugh when they make a conversation. It's an amazing culture! If you visit to Osaka, definitely you would feel comfortable at there. Although Tokyo and Osaka both city are in the same country, apparently the culture between Tokyo and Osaka are different.

However, maybe we are socially awkward as a first impression, but the people who looks conservative are actually very friendly when they open up their mind, we positively help someone those who needs help and we are very polite to others. I think that because we are being proud of descendants of Samurai warriors.

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How to order typical Japanese fast food

As for typical Japanese fast food, I definitely think it's a "Tachigui Soba" which serves standing up eating noodle that you can find out everywhere in the train stations.

Usually the Businessmen who are in a hurry eat at there in order to finish the meal quickly and make it cheaper. I guess you have never seen those kind of shops in your country that why you'd hesitate to go into there. However those meals are cheap and healthy.

During the period of your stay in Japan, I want you to eat at Tachigui Soba onece in a while.

Vending machine

How to order a meal:

1.Buy Meal ticket at Vending machine. ※1

2.Give a ticket to the staff in the kitchen counter.

3.The staff ask you that which do you like Soba or Udon?
   You can chose one of those. ※2

4.Wait for a meal at near the staff.

5.A meal would be served in a minute.
   You should better ask for a spoon to sipping broth.

6.Enjoy your meal.
   Add some red pepper on it to taste.

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Let me explain some of them：

Kake soba / かけそば:
Buckwheat noodles in broth with sliced scallion.

Tanuki soba / たぬきそば:

Buckwheat noodles in broth with grains of deep fried batter.

Kitsune soba / きつねそば:

Buckwheat noodles in broth with orange colored looks like paper thin made of soy beans, its taste very sweet.

Wakame soba / わかめそば:

Buckwheat noodles in broth with seaweed.

Kakiage soba / かき揚げそば:

Buckwheat noodles in broth with deep fried vegetables batter.

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Soba:
Brown colored buckwheat thin noodles which contain a lots of vitamin B and dietary fibers. Having effect on improving blood stream that enable to beauty skin.

Udon:
White colored thick wheat flour noodles which contain carbohydrate has effect on bring energy and absorb nutrition quickly.

In eastern part of Japan like Tokyo, Soba is more popular than Udon. However Udon is much more popular than Soba in western part of Japan like Osaka and Kyoto. Its broth made from benito in eastern Japan, in contrast its broth made from seaweed with lighter taste.
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I've heard that Lady Gaga often dropped by Tachigui soba during her stay in Japan. She said that her favorite one is Kakiage soba. American celebrity likes Japanese fastfood may sounds interesting to me.

Plastic food samples

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Shichirigahama / Kamakura Kanagawa

Shichirigahama(七里ヶ浜)

Get there:
Take JR Yokosuka Line from Downtown Tokyo such a Tokyo Station. It takes approximately fifty minutes to get to Kamakura(鎌倉) Station from Tokyo Station. When you arrive at Kamakura Station, transfer to a Enoden(江ノ電) Line and get off at Shichirigahama(七里ヶ浜) Station that takes about fifteen minutes from Kamakura Station.

When you got through the station, take your first left next right. and then just go toward the sea.

If the weather is good, you can get a very amazing view of Mt.Fuji. It's also worth going there to see the sunset. The best season to see the Mt.Fuji is winter that why you can see the Mt.Fuji which covered snow on the top and can see the view clearly due to the clear air during the winter.

If you want to try surfing, rental surfboard and wetsuit are available at the surfshop that stands around there.

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Kamakurakokomae / Kamakura Kanagawa

Kamakurakokomae(鎌倉高校前)

Get there:
Take JR Yokosuka Line from Downtown Tokyo such a Tokyo Station. It takes approximately fifty minutes to get to Kamakura(鎌倉) Station from Tokyo Station. When you arrive at Kamakura Station, transfer to a Enoden(江ノ電) Line and get off at Kamakurakokomae(鎌倉高校前) Station that takes about seventeen minutes from Kamakura Station.

Kamakurakokomae Station stands its platform along the seashore.

This place was formerly used as a the shooting place for Japanese popular anime(as well cartoon) "Slam Dunk". Not just among the Japanese people, it is also well known to another Asian nation such a Taiwanese tourists(灌籃高手).

You came all the way up here, Why don't you see beautiful landscape?

Going up this steep slope.

Break a leg!

Your patience will be finally paid off!

I wish I could live that house if possible.

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Ryukoji / Kamakura Kanagawa

Ryukoji(龍口寺)

Get there:

Take JR Yokosuka Line from Downtown Tokyo such a Tokyo Station. It takes approximately fifty minutes to get to Kamakura(鎌倉) Station from Tokyo Station. When you arrive at Kamakura Station, transfer to a Enoden(江ノ電) Line and get off at Koshigoe(腰越) Station that takes about twenty minutes from Kamakura Station.

From Koshigoe Station, take your right like this.
Go straight this street about five minutes.

Ryukoji Entrance

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Hie Shrine / Tameikesannou Tokyo

Hie Shrine(日枝神社)

Get there:

Take Subway Ginza Line and get off at the Tameikesannou(溜池山王) Station, Exit7

From Exit7, Take This way

Just across this building

Main Entrane Gate

Go up the stairs

Monkey God

Shrine

Enter the Tunnel of Torii Gates

Travel Tip:

When you got to the nearest train station or bus stop, ask someone to point  out the Japanese character on the top line of this sentence. You will be get there effectively.

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Odaiba / Tokyo

If you are tired of city life, you might consider to go to the beach that make you relaxing. Odaiba is the nearest beach to the Downtown area. Although Odaiba is man made beach its sand was imported from the Kozushima Island that belong Izu Islands. You can get there using the automate operated Yurikamone transit system from Shimbashi station via the Rainbow Bridge.

From JR Shimbashi Station Shiodome Exit,

Take this way

Get off the train at Odaiba-Kaihinkoen(U/06)

And take this way

This way

Eventually you can see the beach on your right.

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