Hibiya Matsumotoro

In Hibiya Park near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, there is a Matsumoto restaurant. This is a French restaurant founded in 1903 with a history of more than 100 years. The current owner Tetsu Kosaka is the grandson-in-law of Umeya Shokichi, the Japanese friend of the founding father Sun Yat-sen. Because this restaurant has a historical connection with modern China, and the descendants of Umeya Shokichi have preserved many figures from Sun Yat-sen's time in Japan, many politicians from the Kuomintang and the Communist Party on both sides of the Taiwan Strait often arrange to visit or dine here when they visit Japan. . The Matsumoto Building was burned down in 1971 due to protests against the return of Okinawa. After two years of renovations, it reopened on September 25, 1973. To commemorate the reopening, the store launched a 10-yen Curry Day. This tradition has been preserved to this day, with a limit of 1,500 servings on that day. Friends who have arranged to travel to Tokyo at this time can go and enjoy this rare discounted meal.

My dad was on a business trip, so we followed him. We didn't have anywhere to go, so we just found a restaurant with high ratings. The environment here is quite unique. We ordered a few dishes that looked good. They were so exquisitely cooked that we couldn't bear to eat them. I think the taste is worth the price. It's not a place I can come to often, but it's good overall.

The restaurant offers creative dishes, which are a combination of Chinese and Western, or Japanese and Western. Here you can eat Japanese food and Western desserts, which taste very good. We ordered sashimi.

A symbol of Sino-Japanese friendship from generation to generation in Tokyo Hibiya Matsumoto-ro Matsumoto-ro was built in 1903, and still preserves a large number of items and documents used by Sun Yat-sen during his stay in Japan. In addition to conscientious cooking, Matsumoto-ro will create an elegant, comfortable and harmonious dining environment: push the door, the classic rhyme will enter your ears, look out, the elegant and subtle soft lighting will keep you for a moment of leisure, the face-to-face is a sincere display of professional enthusiasm, the careful table is the ultimate gourmet cuisine that follows the original Japanese style, adhering to this hospitality, strive to create a pure and comfortable Japanese dining atmosphere for those elites who pursue quality of life, who are at the top and desire tranquility, who have walked through prosperity but yearn for peace, who are burdened physically and mentally but are not good at loving themselves, who have brilliance but lack friends in the world, so that Matsumoto-ro can become a rest stop in a busy life, and respect and enjoy a high-quality exquisite life. The third floor of Hibiya Matsumoto-ro is a French restaurant, and the first floor is a Japanese simple meal. This restaurant is the restaurant where Mr. Sun Yat-sen got married~ I went to the French restaurant on the third floor with my friends and ordered a set meal each. We chose fillet steak as the main course. First, the appetizers opened the way, and then the classic traditional soup of Matsumoto-ro, the mushroom soup base, tasted very delicious. Then the fillet steak, the wagyu really melted in the mouth, the quality of the meat was particularly good, and the taste of the sauce was also very good. Finally, there was mousse ice cream dessert and black tea or coffee☕️. It is already December, and the footsteps of the New Year are quietly approaching. The lobby on the first floor of Matsumoto-ro is also decorated with a Christmas tree. But the most eye-catching thing on the first floor is the piano that Soong Ching Ling played back then. The piano was manufactured in 1907 by Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the predecessor of Japan Yamaha Musical Instruments Co., Ltd., and is known as the earliest piano in Japan. The piano was originally purchased by Umeya Shokichi and his wife for their beloved daughter. In order to commemorate the fate of Mr. Sun Yat-sen and Matsumoto-ro, the piano was donated to Matsumoto-ro as "the piano that was connected with Mrs. Sun Yat-sen" and displayed in the first floor hall of Matsumoto-ro. The first floor also hangs the humanistic anecdotes of Sun Yat-sen and Umeya Shokichi. The current owner of Matsumoto-ro is Tetsuro Kosaka, the grandson-in-law of Umeya Shokichi. He is already the third generation of the shopkeeper, but he and his wife and daughter have been committed to Sino-Japanese friendship to inherit the will of their ancestors. In addition, Matsumoto-ro will also hold various commemorative activities for Sino-Japanese friendship from time to time.

The Matsumoto building has a history of 100 years. It was built in 1903, the third year of the Meiji era. It is the former residence of Umeya Shokichi and the former residence of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. It has a very festive Christmas atmosphere. I like the ceiling lights. There are also many introductions to the history of Matsumoto building.

Hibiya Park is highly recommended for autumn visits, as it offers beautiful autumn foliage and ginkgo trees. The park also houses a long-established restaurant, Matsumoto-ro, a very special place where many Japanese people enjoy dining, meeting, and chatting.