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Eating, drinking and nightlife
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Takamatsu has a wide range of
restaurants
and
cafA©s
, many conveniently concentrated around the central arcade district, just off Chuo-dori. Like Shikoku's other seaside cities, this is a great place to sample fish and
seafood
- in some restaurants, served still wriggling on your plate. The other local speciality is
sanuki udon
, thick white noodles usually served with a separate flask of stock and condiments. For snacks and fast food, there's a
Willie Winkie
bakery at the station (as there is at all major JR stations in Shikoku), which serves up freshly baked pastries, cakes and sandwiches, and a branch of
Mister Donuts
next to the Sogo department store.
Among the city's several bars , a favourite with expat teachers and young Japanese is Sea Dragon , just off the Marugame-machi arcade. It's a spacious, convivial place with a surfboard hanging from the ceiling and potted palms. Apart from being an Internet cafA© , the Queensberry CafA© , near the Sogo department store, is also a rather cool bar serving beer and cocktails. Nearby are Tuk Tuk , a funky izakaya which perpetually pounds to a reggae beat and has Australian wines on its menu, and Kuro Fune in Tokiwa-cho, a laidback bar also serving food to a soundtrack of soul classics.
Takamatsu has few
clubs
, but those worth checking out include
Blue Moon
, 2-8-44 Kawaramachi, which occasionally has live bands and charges A?2500 including one drink, and
Imagine
(tel 087/811-2056), which plays house music and charges A?1500 including one drink. The bar
Sicily Island
, a block south of the Tokiwa arcade, is also a place to head for occasional live music. There are also several
cinemas
around the Tokiwa arcade that show English-language films. Other useful information
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