Check out a few of my favorite Kyoto veggie lunch options....there are some amazing ones despite the reputation of it being hard to find vegetarian food.

On a foggy  morn­ing I pull off the side of High­way One and into Swan­ton Berry Farms. Com­plete with brightly hand painted signs and defi­antly cheery sun­flow­ers I watch as peo­ple step out of their cars and smile. Enter­ing an old con­verted barn packed with nos­tal­gic signs shout­ing the praises of straw­ber­ries on every avail­able wall space I smiled and thought, this is the Cal­i­for­nia that I hope the world imag­ines. 

This stretch of ramen restaurants on the basement floor of Tokyo station is awesome. Designed and built to highlight the best of Tokyo’s vast ramen scene, you could come here many times and eat something new and delicious every time. Offering everything from tsukemen (ramen noodles served with a dipping sauce) to hearty Sapporo-style ramen, each restaurant on ramen street is an outpost of a revered ramen joint somewhere else in the city, and was specially invited into this elite group.

After about a week of tacos al pas­tor and tiny lit­tle tastes of things with fried meat my body really wanted some­thing else. Prefer­ably some­thing fresh and light.…like salad, but one of the changes here is the dif­fer­ence in avail­abil­ity of veg­eta­bles.