Noge-machi

Near JR Sakuragicho Station

An old town of small eating places, clubs, snacks, bars, massage parlors and jazz clubs and cafes. My habitat for eight years until 1997.

Jazz cafe Downbeat. An eel shop on right.

A street, with izakaya Yoronotaki. Right: former Snack Midori where Miyako used to live.

Another jazz cafe Chigusa, home of many famous musicians now active world-wide. Right: the Landmark Tower from Noge. Notice that there are many people - men - here. Noge is flooded by these men on weekends. There is a reason...

Discount shop Yagishita that supplies equipment to BarBarBar. Right: some morons. These morons come to the off-course horse gambling complex that started to propagate in Noge right after I moved in. They aren't humans. Once I drove in the sharp tip of a fishing rod into its stomach but it didn't respond. The tip broke.

Jazz club Dolphy. I ought to have another jazz club on the right but forgot to photograph on this day. Right: a shoddy two-storied building that houses small snacks and bars called "Harmonica Tenement House" by the look of it.

These are all O-oka River. On left is a goby fishing spot where I once caught a meter-long eel. Right: looking at the Fukutomicho-side from Noge.

The Harmonica House on the left bank of the O-oka, and the close-up of the goby spot. To my knowledge, this is the only goby spot on the O-oka. The reason is that the Harmonica is discharging raw sewage.

Left: Mitsuwa Grill, a good restaurant. Right: a nude studio whose close-up you see at bottom right.

Shoya, a franchise eating place (tavern, called izakaya) that serves alcohol and light food. Izakaya is a place that you go when you want to drink and eat something homemade-ish, just by yourself, not being bothered by anyone. There are many izakaya franchises and the food served is mostly the same. So if you go somewhere for the first time and don't find a place that looks okay, choosing a izakaya franchise that you know won't upset you so much, because you know what it serves.