restaurants

A one-story building behind a rusting guardrail, with a patio fronting onto a large pond. A large Confederate flag is emblazoned on the side of the building.

A close-up view of the entrance to the restaurant, a building in the style of a fast-food restaurant, with clapboard siding, decorated with two Confederate flags, one of which has a large white smiley face in the center. A sign on the side of the building reads “LaidBack.” A wagon wheel, a guitar, and American flag, and some other paraphernalia are arranged beside the entrance.

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