{"id":37945,"date":"2016-02-25T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T05:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=37945"},"modified":"2016-02-25T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T06:42:26","slug":"legendary-neighborhood-restaurant-erumu-closes-up-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/37945","title":{"rendered":"Legendary neighborhood restaurant \u201cErumu\u201d closes up shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the bottom of Ground Hill near Waseda Central Library is restaurant \u201cErumu.\u201d Since its opening 34 years ago, owner Katsumi Yamaguchi has been satisfying the appetite of Waseda students with affordable, hearty meals even after the consumption tax increase in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Many are familiar with Erumu\u2019s one important rule: unless you want to make Mr. Yamaguchi angry, if you are in a group, order the same as everyone else. Mr. Yamaguchi does not enforce this rule to cut costs, but out of consideration, so that customers can leave together with the people they come with.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37859 \" alt=\"1602241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602241.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602241.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602241-610x813.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Line forming in front of Erumu<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_37865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37865 \" alt=\"\u5b89\u304f\u3066\u30dc\u30ea\u30e5\u30fc\u30e0\u306e\u3042\u308b\u30e1\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602237.jpg\" width=\"1152\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602237.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602237-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602237-610x457.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602237-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erumu\u2019s menu of hearty, but affordable options<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_37860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37860 \" alt=\"1602232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602232.jpg\" width=\"1152\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602232.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602232-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602232-610x457.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602232-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owner of Erumu, Mr. Yamaguchi<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_37861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37861 \" alt=\"\u300c\u30ab\u30eb\u30dc\u300d\u306e\u611b\u79f0\u3067\u304a\u99b4\u67d3\u307f\u306e\u30ab\u30eb\u30dc\u30ca\u30fc\u30e9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602243.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602243.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602243-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602243-610x457.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1602243-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erumu\u2019s famous Carbonara<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30a8\u30eb\u30e0\u306e\u300c\u30ab\u30eb\u30dc\u300d \u201cErumu\u201d closes up shop\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1_JGkmaaggw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One customer told us, \u201cMy son, who is currently studying abroad in France, loves this restaurant and asked me to come here in his place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his plans after retirement, Mr. Yamaguchi replied, \u201cOff to the otherworld!\u201d We asked Mr. Yamaguchi if he had a message for students to which he embarrassingly admitted, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t.\u201d Customers at the counter laughed as Mr. Yamaguchi went about his routine, unfazed by the restaurant\u2019s imminent closure.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Mr. Yamaguchi\u2019s words, \u201cI\u2019m not all that sad to see the restaurant close,\u201d lingered a tinge of pathos towards the end of Erumu\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the bottom of Ground Hill near Waseda Central Library is restaurant \u201cErumu.\u201d Since its opening 34 years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-37945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-campus_scenes-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}