There’s a Coco Ichiban on the west side of Kashiwa Station! I’m a perpetual East Side girl, and rarely venture to the right side of the tracks. Vancouver, Glasgow, Uwajima City, Kashiwa City, it doesn’t seem to matter which town I’m in, my personal feng shui always places me east of center. Mel the Roommie [...]
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A Kashiwa resident friend I bumped into in the front street took me out to see World Spice, Kashiwa’s halal foods store. The shelves are stocked with dried beans of all descriptions, canned curry fixings that are otherwise hard to come by, and the prices are reasonable. To get there, walk five minutes south along [...]
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Last night, post pub, we were hungry. Ychan suggested Menkichi near Minami Kashiwa Station. She said that Menkichi won the Ramen Fight last year. We got there at quarter to one in the morning. Menkichi is located on the road on the south side of the Joban Line tracks, next to an overpass just east [...]
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Since 2004, Jose, a Peruvian living and working in Kashiwa, has been hosting Salsa Kashiwa. What fun! Every Saturday night in April, from 7pm to midnight, at the Yumebutai Dance Studio you can salsa your socks off to Latin music. Don’t know how? Every party begins with a lesson. It was my first time out, [...]
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