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2019 is well underway, but with so many amazing games on the horizon, it's hard to know what to look out for. Fear not, listener, that's what we're here for. Join us as we count down our most anticipated games of the year. Before we cast our eyes ahead, we talk about New Frontiers: The Race for the Galaxy Board Game, and Hansa Teutonica.

02:33 - New Frontiers: The Race for the Galaxy Board Game
09:25 - Hansa Teutonica
18:13 - Most Anticipated Games of 2019
18:59 - Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy
22:09 - Glorantha: The Gods War
25:28 - TOKYO TSUKIJI MARKET
28:27 - Sabotage
31:04 - Living Planet
33:26 - Pipeline
36:20 - Escape Plan
38:04 - Res Arcana
39:36 - Barrage
41:03 - ELO Darkness
44:02 - Black Angel
45:18 - On Mars
46:43 - Warpgate
48:54 - Mezo
51:07 - City of the Big Shoulders

Essen SPIEL 2018! Okay, we're not technically at Essen SPIEL, but we've got that Essen FEEL. We're each counting down the five games that we most wish we were in Germany to play this weekend. Before we hand over our Euros, we talk about SPQF, Le Havre, and Scythe: The Rise of Fenris.

02:09 - SPQF
07:17 - Le Havre
12:31 - Scythe: The Rise of Fenris
17:06 - Essen Preview
17:49 - Magnastorm
19:11 - Futuropia
20:27 - Big Shot
22:41 - Gùgōng
24:21 - Shadows: Amsterdam
26:41 - Smartphone Inc.
28:03 - Alone
29:40 - Solenia
30:44 - Tsukiji
31:51 - Teotihuacan: City of Gods
33:26 - Pax Transhumanity
34:53 - Rebel Nox
36:09 - Warpgate
38:35 - Forum Trajanum
39:34 - 1906 San Francisco
44:43 - Scythe: The Rise of Fenris (SPOILERS!)

Störst i världen. Mer fisk och skaldjur än någon annan fiskmarknad.Men nu har myndigheterna bestämt att Tsukiji - Tokyos fiskmarknad ska flytta eftersom den inte lever upp till dagens hygienkrav.

Japanpodden har besökt denna historiska pärla - bespottad, förringad, men oj så älskad. Här kan man skilja på tonfisk och tonfisk.

At Morimoto, a downtown restaurant located in Chelsea, New York, sushi chef and Iowa native Robby Cook likes to let the fish do the talking for him.

To those who say they want to see a Japanese chef serve their sushi in order to get the “authentic” sushi experience, Cook says “Go ahead!”

“At this point, I’m in my career where it doesn’t really matter… if they want a different chef, then far be it…” said Cook. “I think my skills prove it and I’ve done my time.”

As he chats with our New York correspondent, Agnes Chung, we learn that Cook started out by working at an organic grocery store back when he was going to college and that’s when he and his friends would start making sushi on their own. (They got really into the show Iron Chef.)

Working for Chef Morimoto has been surreal for Cook. He was working at BondST when Chef Morimoto came in to eat on a Sunday night and called him over to ask him to swing by for an interview.

Japan is a country of contrasts, which has a lot more to offer the independent traveller than just geishas and sushi. In this episode of the Indie Travel Podcast, we talk to Andres Zuleta about what to do in the land of the rising sun.