restaurants

A restaurant entrance, too dark to see anything but the sign over the entrance, which reads (transliterated): “Te-uchi udon / Yamabiko Benten”

A street corner cluttered with a concrete power poll, several traffic signs, power lines, and a progression of three grey, nondescript buildings of, from nearest to farthest, one story, two stories, and three stories. A sign in front of the nearest building reads, “Ruck Cafe”.

A dutch-angle view of the entrance to a shop, with a triangular patch of concreted parking lot in brilliant sunshine in the foreground. The entrance is screened lattice paneling fashioned from 2x2s on 2-inch spacing. A sign etched and stained in a rough-edged wooden slab over the entrance reads (in English translation) “Founded in Meiji 28 (1895) / Asagorō / Odamaki Vendor