To mark the start of spring and the new business year, my monthly column for Skyward, the inflight magazine of Japan Air Lines, underwent an overhaul from this month.
So it's sayonara to Stellar Eats, my long-running series on Michelin-starred restaurants in Tokyo where you can dine affordably (well, for ¥5,000 or under). And in with the new series, entitled Tokyo Eats.
In a nod to the recent UNESCO recognition of washoku as an intangible (really?) World Heritage, I will be focusing entirely on Japanese cuisine, especially restaurants that keep alive the food tradition of the Eastern Capital, Tokyo. Starting with one of my – and everyone's – all-time favourites, Kanda Matsuya.
Here are a few more images from the photo shoot and my interview with Matsuya's octogenarian but totally spry owner, Toshi Kodaka, and his son, the sobameister, Takayuki…
The English version of Skyward is only available on JAL's international flights in or out of Japan — but not on domestic flights.
Many moons ago I also wrote up Kanda Matsuya in my Japan Times column, here…
