Taisho — Restaurant in Tsukuba

Our first meal in Japan and a fantastic experience! A small traditional izakaya for drinks and snacks, with little booths and tatami seating. The menu is entirely in Japanese and largely handwritten, but was easy enough for us to use with Google Translate on our phones. The staff was very kind and accommodating of the language barrier. Highlights on the menu for us were the icy supercooled plum sake, the sardine sashimi and the yakitori. The fried oysters and crab miso were also interesting, if not very much to our taste. Overall super nice, and we had such a nice time that we came back again a...

Booths, easy to call the servers, not expensive, I had not been to this place in a long while but it was quite good. Good selection too. Tucked away in what looks like someone's driveway, across the entrance of Kasumi and ths side of Cando.. If my memory serves correctly, this place can get crowded, so be sure...

Very nice izakaya. We had a reservation for 11 people and to my surprise most of the food was already on the table 15 minutes before our reservation time. Therefore by the time we ate, some items like the tempura had gone cold and greasy. The fish was very nice....