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No Phones in The Ten-don Shop — Ridgeline issue 218

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Some twenty-three years ago in Tokyo, I used to eat at a funny little tendon shop called Imoya. I was a student at Waseda University back then, and this place was a campus staple. Tendon, when done well, can be divine, and Imoya was divine through and through.

No Phones in The Ten-don Shop Thinking about shops with rules and how we could use some more Ridgeline Transmission 218 KISSATEN WALK RULES Ridgeline subscribers — (Originally published in Japanese in Esquire Japan, October 2025) Some twenty-three years ago in Tokyo, I used to eat at a funny little tendon shop called Imoya . I was a student at Waseda University back then, and this place was a campus staple. Tendon, when done well, can be divine, and Imoya was divine through and through. The shop was run by the crankiest husband and wife you ever met. The whole place was just seven or eight cou

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