Monday, June 12, 2023

back to nakano

Satoshi has a tour group coming in August and they want to go to Nakano, Harajuku and Akihabara.

He's never been to Nakano, so I took him around on Saturday.

He wanted to see the Nakano Sun Plaza, it is a hotel with a concert hall in it also.

It is 50 years old, so they will be tearing it down next month and will be rebuilding it afterwards.

Lunch was at Cafe Rainbow, a curry shop inside of Nakano Broadway.

I had their pork vindaloo and chicken masala...1120 yen (tax included) 

Satoshi had their pork vindaloo and veggie 1120 yen (tax included)

This was so spicy...mouth.on.fire.

I had a hard time finishing this because of the heat, but I'm glad we got to try this place.

One of the places that is on the tour's itinerary is the Manga School Nakano...

It is about 10 minutes walking from the JR Nakano station.

Apparently the tour will be taking a manga drawing class here.

Introduced Satoshi to Daily Chiko.

If you remember we went here with V and her daughter last year.

This time around, there were quite a lot of tourists having soft serve here.

Satoshi chose cafe au lait, melon and matcha...340 yen (tax included)

I chose chocolate, cafe au lait and matcha...340 yen (tax included)...brain freeze!
While eating my soft serve, I spotted jars of peanut butter on the shelves of the store next door to Daily Chiko.

298 yen (plus tax) for a bottle!

Since I haven't seen JIF in the stores recently, this brand by Meijiya, is my favorite for now.

Had to get two bottles because the price was so low!

We also checked out the upper floors of Nakano Broadway which have every collectors dream items!

Run by Mandarake, all collections are organized by type, was amazing to see all the different shops.

Hopefully Satoshi will be able to take this group around, their schedule sounds really tight, he’s not too familiar with manga or anime and he has bad sense of direction…eep!

Cafe Rainbow

Nakano Broadway B1

Open Daily: 11:00-18:00

Manga School Nakano : website

2-7-13 Nakano, Nangoku Building 2F

Open Daily: 10:00-18:00

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7 comments:

jalna said...

Satoshi is so cute.

Anonymous said...

dying for a soft serve right now (7:23am) lol. but, how come not the beeeeg one??? and how come Satoshi's is melting already? He's so sweet he waited for yours before he ate! :)
v

K and S said...

Jalna, :)

V, no can the beeg one! lol, was kinda "H" that day.

Take care you two.
Kat

jalna said...

Ahahahaha, V's comment . . . . the same thing came into my mind about Satoshi's melting soft serve.

K and S said...

Jalna, nah, was super warm that day :)

Take care.
Kat

KirkK said...

Satishi looks pretty happy with that soft serve! ;o)

K and S said...

it really hit the spot, Kirk :)

Take care.
Kat