a bowl of rice topped with tempura 'Iwamatsu'

'Tendon' is a bowl of rice topped with tempra.
'Iwamatsu' is a specialty restaurant of Tendon. The restaurant is across a park in front of Yokosuka city hall, it takes 5 minites to get from Yokosuka chuo station. It is an old and small restaurant but it is a very famous and popular in Yokosuka.
Because the dishes are good prices and very delicious. The most Tendon is between 500 and 1,000yen.
The photo is 'Iwamatsu don(750yen)' made of fried 2 shrimps, a mixture of vegetable bits, a pumpkin, a eggplant, a green pepper and a lotus root on rice. I took it out and dished up them into a bowl. The bowl is not a container of the restaurant.
The restaurant has English menu. You can take the dishes out.

Tendon no Iwamatsu
The shop infomation by Google
open 11:00-18:00(or sold out)
tel 046-825-0128

Starbuckscoffee'Bring My Cup'

Do you know how you can get a discount when you buy some beverages at Starbuckscoffee in Japan? You only bring your cup. If you bring your cup for your ordering beverage, they repay you 20yen. It is promotion to decrease disposabled cups for ecology.
They are holding the special campaign from 1/Oct/2009 to 3/Nov/2009. You can get 50yen in the period.
At the bottom of the blackboard in the photo says " 1/Oct-4 230cups CO2 27600g".

Usukawataiyaki no 'Taikichi' (Taiyaki shop)

'Taiyaki' is a fish-shaped pancake stuffed with bean jam. This is a popular sweets in Japan. And Taiyaki is popular now. There is an opinion in Japan that a recession raise a Taiyaki boom. Because Taiyaki is model on a sea bream which brings people good fortune in Japan.
The mold of Taiyaki are 2 types the wild fish and the farmed fish. The wild fish is made only one from a mold and the famed fishs are made all together from a mold.

'Taikichi' is in the food court 2F Daiei Yokosuka. Taiyaki is just popular sweets so they used to be old unrefined sweets. But the Taikichi's Taiyaki are made warmth and polite. They seem make a modern style. The photo is not with bean jam but custard cream(140yen). They are good not only style but also taste.

Taikichi(Taiyaki shop)
The food court 2F Daiei Yokosuka
Open 10:00-21:00
tel 046-821-3921

Tofu maker 'Kamakurakomachi'

'Kamakurakomachi' is a popular bean curd('Tofu') maker. The branch restaurant of the maker is close to JR Zushi station. It takes walk 5min to get from the station.
The left side photo is 'Yuba-sushi'(1,160yen seasonth specially price). Yuba is a delicacy composed of fresh of the skin of soybean milk.

Next one photo is 'Komachi parfait'(620yen) which is decorated soy milk cakes, soy milk puddings and soy milk rice-flour dumplings.
All of dishes are made of healthy tofu.
Kamakurakomachi Website

The dumpling 'TAIHEI'

These dumpling called 'Mitarashi-dango' in Japan. Mitarashi is made of soy sauce and sugar.
'TAIHEI' is very small store and sells Japanese sweets, rice ball, vinegared rice rolled in dried laver, pouch of fried bean curd stuffed with vinegared rice etc..
'Mitarashi-dango' is the most popular of them. Today, most stores have been taking the rice-cake sweets with preservatives for keeping soft them . But 'TAIHEI' is particular about old taste, so the store never take them with it. If you eat them, you will discover it.

'TAIHEI' is the first store of the arcaded street, it takes 2min to go up Hirasaka from Yokosuka-chuo station.
TAIHEI
tel cannot
open not clear(maybe6:00-17:00)
close WED

yakitori 'Maido'

Yakitori is grilled chiken. Maido is the shop selling skewers of grilled chiken in Yokosuka. The most Maidos are close to train stations. As far as I know there are close to Maborikaigan station and Horinouchi station (Keihinkyuko line). The most yakitoris are taken out 70yen/each and eaten there 100yen/each. And Maborikaigan shop offer taken out 60yen/each on every Tuesday. They are good price and delicious. As far as I can remember, they are opened probably from evening to the last train of the nearest station.

Tsuruyayoshinobu'Tsubara Tsubara'

"Tsubara Tsubara" is a word of a traditional Japanese poetry which was written by 'Ohtomonotabibito' in 'Manyoushu'. It means "deep feeling" and "your heart's content to the full".
This japanese cake'Tsubara Tsubara' looks like 'Dorayaki' two small pancakes with bean jam in between. But it is more gentle sweet and smaller than Dorayaki. It won 'the small present grand prize' in Japanese magazine 'Brutus', so it is very famous among some fans of Japanese cakes. You can buy it at Tsuruyayoshinobu shops or its website. I bought it on B2F in Sogo Yokohama. Its price is 142yen/one.
Tsuruyayosihobu website(Japanese only)
Tsuruyayosihobu shops list(Japanese only)