I love Izakaya Tanaka and seeing it tonight brings a wide smile to my face. I like it when it’s quiet, not as busy nor crazy as it was on New Year’s Eve.
Miko’s family has been running this place for three generations. It’s one of the few places in Ku 7 that’s been around for almost seventy years. Her great-great-grandmother hand-painted the menu signs hanging along the front of the bar, and the family’s collection of golden maneki-neko, ceramic waving cats, line the walls above the booths.