The Worst Episodes of Solitary Gourmet
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Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Solitary Gourmet" is "A Cafe's Neapolitan Pasta in Kichijoji, Musashino City", rated 7.2/10 from 17 user votes. It was directed by Tadaaki Horai and written by Yoshihiro Taguchi. "A Cafe's Neapolitan Pasta in Kichijoji, Musashino City" aired on 2/15/2012 and is rated 0.0 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Stir Fry Lamb with Leeks and Spareribs of Okachimachi, Taito Ward, Tokyo".
7.2/10 17 votes#1 - A Cafe's Neapolitan Pasta in Kichijoji, Musashino City
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/2012
The lone merchant who says he can "eat anything," has had a sudden attack of indecision. His inability to decide on what and where to eat begins when he arrives in the casual, vibrant town of Kichijoji. This made him late for his meeting with a client - an owner of a jazz cafe. Afterwards, Inogashira-san finds himself back to his dilemma as he goes around town deciding where to eat. Finally, an odd feeling made him stop in front of a restaurant called "Kayashima." He steps inside and looks over the menu, only to get lost in the maze of varied dishes being offered...
Director: Tadaaki Horai
Writer: Yoshihiro Taguchi
7.2/10 11 votes#2 - Stir Fry Lamb with Leeks and Spareribs of Okachimachi, Taito Ward, Tokyo
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 5/26/2017
Inogashira Goro (Matsushige Yutaka) was visiting the jewelry district of Okachimachi. Takeuchi (Okada Koki), president of a jewelry and gem-processing store, asked Goro to handle the interior decoration of their first product exhibition at a department store. Goro admired Takeuchi's work philosophy of infusing their thoughts into their jewelry. After the meeting, Goro suddenly got hungry, and started searching for a shop. After a bit of searching, the character of "sheep" caught his eye. Fascinated by the shop's name, "Yangshang Ajibo," he believed his intuition and went inside the shop. The menu was full of the character for "sheep". He assembled his order, with much planning and thought. He ordered lamb meat stir-fry, lamb shumai, lamp soup, plus different condiment sauces, making up a superb "Lamb Meat Festival"...
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7.3/10 10 votes#3 - Beef Yakishabu and Pork Yakishabu of Usami, Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 8/6/2021
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7.3/10 10 votes#4 - Salt Boiled Mutton and Lamb Zhajiangmian of Sugamo, Toshima Ward, Tokyo
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 9/17/2021
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7.4/10 13 votes#5 - Korean-Style Tempura and Samgyetang Ramen of Ginza, Chuo Ward
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 7/16/2014
Goro goes to the vibrant district of Ginza. He is not on a business trip but to visit a friend of his and offer his support. This friend, Sasagawa Hitomi (Hirooka Yuriko) is holding an exhibit of her photographs she took from her travels in Vietnam. After the visit, he strolls around Ginza, and tries out some soothing sweets and tea at a Taiwanese cafe named "Santokudou". After further strolling, he decides to look for a place to have a "Ginza meal." However, he walked a tad too far, and ends up on the outskirts of Ginza and in what appears to be the district of Shinbashi. Nevertheless, an eatery named "Namiji-Tei", that offers Korean home-cooked meals catches his attention. However, it was narrow inside the small eatery and and is already packed with other customers, all sharing a big table. Since he prefers to dine alone, Goro plans to leave. But somehow, he gets persuaded by the eatery's Omoni (Shibata Rie) to stay and eat...
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7.4/10 13 votes#6 - Conveyor Belt Sushi of Taishido, Setagaya Ward, Tokyo
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 5/5/2017
Inogashira Goro (Matsushige Yutaka) was trying to enter a stained glass shop near Sangenjaya Station, when he noticed that store manager Aya (Yamashita Rio) was crying. Surprised at this unexpected scene, he hesitated to enter. After that, Goro heard the cause of Aya's tears. Later, her grandfather, Jiro (Wakabayashi Go) showed up and invited Goro to go fishing but... After leaving the shop, Goro got hungry and began looking for a shop at Suzuran Street. Here, he saw a conveyor belt sushi shop called "Daidokoya". Goro went inside, and immersed himself in the fun, revolving seafood carnival. Sushi of all shapes and toppings came into view in a little merry-go-round as Goro sat back and chose his meal. But a fierce battle is about to unfold... Later, bungling and cheerful fishing enthusiast, Hamazaki Densuke (Hamada Gaku) came in, lugging his fishing gear. He asked Goro what good food to order...
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- 7.4/10 11 votes
#7 - Stir Fry Pork with Pickled Takana Mustard Greens and Beef Soup Soba of Takadanobaba, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 5/12/2017
When Inogashira Goro (Matsushige Yutaka) got off at Takadanobaba Station, there was a sweet smell from somewhere. It was from a nearby melonpan specialty shop. Even though he was feeling hungry, he decided to go to his appointment first. He thought his meeting with karate instructor, Suzuki (Takahashi Tsutomu) will be over in a jiffy. However, Goro found himself waiting meekly as Suzuki finishes his intense training session with his students... After he left the dojo, it was already past 3 pm. Goro found himself in a predicament: he was starving but shops are closed at this time! Luckily, he spotted an open restaurant, specializing in Myanmar-Shan cuisine, "Nong Inlay". Inside, Goro was bug-eyed with surprise when he read the dishes listed in the "exotic zone" part of the menu. Nevertheless, there were other unknown dishes that caught his interest: fermented tea leaves salad, mouth-watering stir fry dishes, sticky rice dishes, delectable soup, etc...
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7.4/10 9 votes#8 - Roaster Yakiniku For One of Fujioka City, Gunma Prefecture
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2019
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7.5/10 14 votes#9 - Lamb Karahi and Laghman of Higashi-Nakano, Nakano Ward
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 8/7/2013
Goro arrives in Higashi-Nakano. He strolls around a shopping street with an old-Showa feel. Then, he goes to a small theater owned by a senpai of his, an indie filmmaker. Before their meeting, he is treated with a sweet-salty Sakura flavored gelato. Afterwards, his senpai asks him for help regarding a movie themed exhibit. However, Goro has a hard time ending his meeting as his senpai has a habit of talking endlessly when it comes to movies and theaters. Finally he extricates himself from it and he goes in search of a place to eat and chooses a restaurant with a Bohemian atmosphere. It's called "Caravan Sarai" serving Afghan and Pakistani cuisine of lamb-based dishes and kebabs.
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7.5/10 12 votes#10 - Sara Udon and Spring Rolls of Dogenzaka, Shibuya Ward, Tokyo
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 5/19/2017
Inogashira Goro (Matsushige Yutaka) who visited a club in Shibuya for business negotiations, is bewildered by the unfamiliar atmosphere of blaring loud music, mirror balls and dancing lights. Meeting with the club manager Saejima (Kubozuka Shunsuke), while surrounded by his staff members, Goro found it difficult to negotiate since they were all speaking in modern slang that only young people could understand. Feeling out of touch with today's youth, a frustrated Goro became hungry afterwards, and began searching for a shop. However, he had a hard time finding a place that piqued his interest, that is, until he found a Chinese restaurant called "Nagasaki Hanten" in a small alley in Dogenzaka. The shop's appearance reminded him of the old Shibuya. Plus, looking at the shop's display of gyoza and spring rolls, Goro felt he had found the right shop...
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7.5/10 11 votes#11 - Zarzuela and Squid Ink Paella of Hatanodai, Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 6/9/2017
Inogashira (Matsushige Yutaka) who was at a shopping district in Hatanodai, entered a traditional cafe called "Attic" to check his email messages. He reads one from a Finnish friend who requested him to look into how a particular old bathhouse in Tokyo was reused for other business purposes. After having thoroughly enjoyed a good old "cream soda", he arrived at the bathhouse. The owner Todo (Kamio Yu) showed him around the place while Goro took pictures to send to his friend in Finland. While reviewing the photos on his digital camera, he chanced upon old pics of the time he spent in Paris. It also reminded him of Sayuki, who once confessed to him before... Then, Goro felt hungry. He saw a shop with the Spanish national flag in front. Its red signboard said "Spanish Diner, Ishii." Wile Goro was ushered in by the wife (Hitomi Sato), he got startled by loud popping sounds from the kitchen. He looked at the menu and was pleased to see that there are offers of half-sized dishes, too...
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7.5/10 11 votes#12 - Deep Fried Corn and Beef Rice of Gotanda, Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 6/30/2017
Inogashira Goro (Matsushige Yutaka) arrived at Gotanda Station, to meet with his last client for the day, Watanabe Masayoshi (Hasegawa Tomoharu), the president of a certain packing company. However, as soon as Watanabe saw him, he pulled Goro behind some crates to hide him from his mother. Goro was confused and bewildered... After the meeting, Goro stopped for a moment to watch the flow of Meguro River. He suddenly felt hungry and looked for a shop. He saw a signboard that said, "Fureai Eat and Drink Shop Area". It was located inside a building full of snack bars and pubs. Being a non-drinker, Goro at first, hesitated but when he saw the sign, "Shokudou Todaka", he decided to give it a shot. Inside, the master of the shop (Tsuyoshi Muro) asked him to choose a drink which comes with a side nibble. Disappointed, Goro felt uneasy since it seemed it was mainly a pub. But he looked at the menu, and realized that there were Beef Rice and miso soup available, too...
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7.5/10 11 votes#13 - Braised Kinmedai and Goro's Original Parfait of Ninomiya, Naka District, Kanagawa Prefecture
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 7/16/2021
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7.6/10 20 votes#14 - Boiled Fish Set of Komagome, Toshima Ward
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2012
Inogashira-san travels to Komagome as requested by an old-time customer of his, a gallery owner. Having finished early with his appointment, he decides to have an early supper. He looks around in an unfamiliar neighborhood and even gets distracted by a group of old men playing shogi. Finally, he stops before "Washoku-tei," a home-cooked style restaurant that serves set meals...
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer: Yoshihiro Taguchi
7.6/10 19 votes#15 - Dan Dan Noodles Without Soup of Ikebukuro, Toshima Ward
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/18/2012
Inogashira-san visits the bustling commercial town of Ikebukuro to meet with a client from a model room company, and to scout for a possible new office location. He also buys from his favorite store. He notices many Chinese restaurants that have sprouted in the streets, and decides to have Chinese food for his lunch. Later, a sign catches his eye and it reads, 'Chinese Home-Cooking Yan...'
Director: Tadaaki Horai
Writer: Yoshihiro Taguchi
7.6/10 19 votes#16 - Oyako-Don and Yaki-Udon of Eifuku, Suginami Ward
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/2012
It had been a bad week for Inogashira-san. The lone merchant is in the doldrums after experiencing several set-backs in his dry goods business. He travels to Eifuku, Suginami to get some fresh air and to meet with an old friend. However, his meeting fails to push through and so he ends up whiling away his time fishing alone at "Musashino-en Fishing Pond." He experiences a sudden need to eat, and decides to try out the fishing facilities' own canteen...
Director: Tadaaki Horai
Writer: Yoshihiro Taguchi
7.6/10 18 votes#17 - Grilled Garlic Porkloin of Saginomiya, Nakano Ward
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/8/2012
Inogashira-san is in Saginomiya, Nakano to see a client who owns a hair salon. After a bizarre meeting with her, he goes off to visit a long-time friend and confidante. But before that, he gets sidetracked by a store that sells confectioneries. Then, finally, he arrives at his friend's store but is taken aback by what he sees. Later on, he seeks for a place to satisfy his hunger. So he decides to partake on a heavy-duty pork meal at a tonkatsu shop called "Miyako-ya"...
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer: Katsui Itazaka
7.6/10 17 votes#18 - Hitori Yakiniku (Grilled Meat For One) of Hatcho-nawate, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/22/2012
After seeing off a client/friend at the airport, Inogashira-san passes through the Keihin Industrial Zone. Before embarking on a long drive back home, he stops and idly watches the view of steel infrastructure frameworks of the zone's steel mills and oil refineries from a distance. He is hypnotized and impressed by their immense size, towering smokestacks and complex design. And yet, it also somehow, reminds him of... well, food, most particularly, yakiniku. He goes in search of a yakiniku eatery in Hatcho-nawate, Kawasaki and settles for "Tsuruya" which offers solitary dining for individual customers. It's perfect for a ravenous lone wolf like Inogashira-san!
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer: Yoshihiro Taguchi
7.6/10 12 votes#19 - Chicken and Vegetable with Herbs Soup Curry of Mita, Meguro Ward, Tokyo
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/2017
Inogashira Goro (Matsushige Yutaka) is feeling nervous and excited over a possible big project of renovating interiors of guest rooms at a hotel in Meguro. Despite feeling confident, he was shocked when hotel executive Kudo (Yamazaki Shigenori) did not like his proposal. Kudo asks Goro to do it all over again. After the meeting, Goro walks around a residential area of Meguro in a daze, reflecting on what went wrong. Suddenly struck with hunger, he goes in search of a shop. He finds one with a huge statue of a cat at the entrance. The shop is called "Shania", a restaurant specializing in healthy "medicinal" soup curry and other Hokkaido-inspired dishes. Once inside, the shop clerk (Tanimura Mitsuki) hands him a menu, that explains step by step procedure on how to order soup curry...
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7.6/10 14 votes#20 - Special Salted Beef Tongue and Kainomi of Higashi-Yamato City, Tokyo
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 4/28/2017
Inogashira Goro (Matsushige Yutaka) who came to Kokubunji for work, stopped by a drapery and blinds shop in Higashi-Yamato City, Tokyo, to see how an old friend, shopowner Murayama Mariko (Tezuka Satomi) is doing. She has recently injured her leg, and has been using crutches in order to walk. After his visit, Goro contemplates on what might happen if he and Mariko ended up together... However, such useless thinking suddenly made him hungry, and so he goes off somewhere to eat. He sees a yakiniku shop called "Suien", and entered without hesitation. The shop's "Kanban Musume" (popular employee), Miyu (Shiraishi Sei) attends to him. Goro looks at the menu posters at the shop, and decides which ones to choose to make up his yakiniku feast: salted tongue, kainomi, pork jaw, zabuton, offals...
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7.6/10 10 votes#21 - Green and Red Mapo Tofu of Mikawashima, Arakawa Ward, Tokyo
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/2018
Inogashira Goro (Matsushige Yutaka) is walking at a shopping street near Mikawashima Station. He looks at wares sold by the shops. He next meets with Sugiyama (Nakayama Shinobu), a soon to be shopowner of a sweets store. She wants Goro to come up with decors and accessories for her shop. Before Goro leaves, she gives him some kimchi and even directions on where to find the shop that sells it. Goro goes to the shop and buys more kimchi for himself. Then, he suddenly feels the pangs of hunger, and searches for a restaurant to eat within the area. He tries a Chinese shop called "Shinjitsuichiro" thatspecializes in mapo tofu. Inside, he finds it is run by a young chef (Okada Yoshinori). The shop also has many versions of mapo tofu and tea, with designated colors like, "white", "red", "black", etc...
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7.6/10 10 votes#22 - Bone-In Pork Ribs Galbi and a Cluster of Side Dishes of Seoul, South Korea
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 6/15/2018
It was Inogashira Goro's (Matsushige Yutaka) second day in Seoul, South Korea. On his way to his client's office, he spots and tries a food stall that sells tteok-bokki and Korean tempura. Afterwards, he attends a meeting with President Im (Sung Si Kyung), and his assistants, including Park Soo-Young (Park Jung-ah). Goro says his goodbye as his consultation ends, and is headed back home to Japan. However, he feels hungry, and looks around for a shop to eat. He decides to try a charcoal grill shop called "Jongjeom Sutbul Galbi". He was able to order by indicating that he'll be having what the other customers were eating. What he ordered was delicious pork galbi. What he didn't expect was it was accompanied by all sorts of banchan, or side dishes, as well as doenjang jjigae...
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7.6/10 10 votes#23 - German Smoked Mackerel and Spare Ribs of Yuigahama, Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2019
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7.6/10 10 votes#24 - Ohkaku and Horumon Soba of Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/2019
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7.6/10 9 votes#25 - Jingisukan for One of Musashi-Kosugi, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/2019
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