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- Why Does Tsubaki Grand Shrine Have a 4.6 on Google? Dawn Visits, a Waterfall Wallpaper, a Panasonic Founder's Tea House and a Holiday Lunch HackScroll past a shrine on Google Maps with a 4.6 rating and you'd probably just think, "Okay, that's high."
- Why Did Japanese School Lunches Taste So Good?Why were school lunches in Japan so good back in elementary and junior high?
- Giant yogurt on weeknights, Matsusaka beef sometimes: why so costlyIf you want one small pleasure at the end of a workday, a large tub of yogurt is surprisingly competitive with beer.
- Why is Yokkaichi full of glitch-priced food? Port canteens and outlets“Are there places in Yokkaichi that are cheap for an interesting reason, rather than simply being cheap restaurants?”
- Fine dining as an amusement park: a solo 10,000 yen lunch at KEII went alone to a high-end French restaurant for a very simple reason: I wanted to taste everything properly.
- Why Is This Toyokawa Soba Shop Still Full at 12:45 on a Weekday?At 12:45 on a weekday, the usual assumption is that the lunch rush should be fading.

- The Weekday Lunch Research Club — Hunting the Cheap Daytime Entrance to Expensive Restaurants in Higashi-MikawaRestaurant seats cannot be stored as inventory.
- How to use a weekday paid day off: hotel lunch and hot springsWhen work drains you, taking paid leave does not always mean planning a big trip.
- "Our community facility, so cut the trees": a volunteering mismatchImagine a community group buying a property and planning to turn it into a sauna-like gathering place.
- Aso's discount looked cheap until airfare: Fukuoka vs KumamotoA hotel discount of ¥5,000 plus a ¥2,000 local coupon sounds like an obvious reason to visit Aso.
- What makes someone fun to talk to? Disclosure, follow-ups, banter“You pick up every little bit, so talking to you is fun.” That is more interesting as a conversation mechanism than as a compliment.
- I Went Alone to a Hotel’s Top-Floor French Restaurant on a Weekday—and Higashi-Mikawa Showed Up on Every PlateWalk into one of the most prominent buildings near Toyohashi Station, ride to the 16th floor, and sit down alone for weekday lunch.