JapanBall Hall of Fame...and Cafe

An Essential Piece of Your Japan Experience

What we tongue-in-cheek call the JapanBall Hall of Fame is open Monday through Saturday for lunch and dinner until 10pm.  It's located in the easy-to-find Cafe Noodle Roje, a delightful little neighborhood cafe just blocks from the Tokyo Dome.

The HOF was born in 2005 when Connie said, "Could you help me see the rest of the stadiums after the main tour?"

We'd never been asked that.  We figured anyone going on to visit all the ballparks certainly belonged in the JapanBall Hall of Fame, if we'd actually had such a thing.

So, in our heads at least, the HOF was born and the Induction Committee set forth criteria for admission, which is essentially seeing all the parks on one trip or completing the main tour three times.

We began to keep our eyes open for the right spot to house the HOF and its member plaques.  A place that would be welcoming to foreign baseball fans, give them a personal feel for the country, and serve food that's varied and easy to take.

We found the perfect spot.  How we found it includes soup, a charming husband and wife restaurant team (the husband of which we're convinced is Japan's former prime minister), their love of baseball, and the atomic bomb.