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“I’m sorry to make such a difficult request of you.” “That’s fine,” Ikuna said, willing to accept responsibility for however the meal turned out. I do get a lot of passengers who ask me to take them there, though, so I think it’s a pretty popular place.” “If you end up thinking the restaurant I’m taking you to tastes bad, then I apologize. “But you know, whether or not food tastes good is a matter of personal taste,” the driver said as he drove. It’s not a gyoza-main place, though.” Ikuna assured him that that would be fine, and he pulled into traffic and started driving west from the station. But after thinking it over a little more, he said “There’s a place I can recommend, but they serve gyoza. This wasn’t an off-the-cuff answer just to blow Ikuna off, considering how long he’d taken before responding. He spent several moments deep in thought, before answering: The unusual question seemed to take the driver by surprise, what with gyoza being the first thing almost everyone wants to eat once they arrive in town. ▼ Clockwise from top left: an Utsunomiya gyoza restaurant, an Utsunomiya gyoza sticker picture booth, Ikuna posing with Utsunomiya’s gyoza statue, and the entrance to Utsunomiya’s Gyoza Road.īut when Ikuna hopped into a cab outside Utsunomiya Station, she asked the driver “Can you please take me to a good place to eat that’s not a gyoza restaurant?” Utsunomiya is famous for gyoza, and you can find restaurants specializing in the delicious dumplings all over the city. On her visit to Tochigi Prefecture’s Utsunomiya, though, our reporter Ikuna Kamezawa pulled a 180 on our usual plan. That’s why we asked for the best takoyaki place in Osaka and seafood in Otaru.
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If you’ve been following our “Hey, Japanese Taxi Driver” series, in which we ask cabbies to take us to the best local restaurants around Japan, you might have noticed that we often ask for a recommendation for whatever type of food the city is famous for. It’s a gyoza town, but what happens when you ask for a restaurant that’s got other great good too?