Umibozu, a Shizuoka Oden Spot
For dinner, I ended up at Umibozu, a Shizuoka oden specialist inside Shizuoka Station that I’d spotted that morning. The kitchen of Togakushi Soba Isooroshi, snapped on the way Looks like they’re …
For dinner, I ended up at Umibozu, a Shizuoka oden specialist inside Shizuoka Station that I’d spotted that morning. The kitchen of Togakushi Soba Isooroshi, snapped on the way Looks like they’re …
I wandered around a bit more in search of good food in Shizuoka. A café on the way It says this is the strongest matcha in the universe.. uh, okay.. A shop selling oinari, i.e. inari sushi The fox was cute, …
A lot of Shizuoka’s good places to eat are clustered around the station, so I went to check them out. Sokuhai, a liquor shop I spotted on the way This place is fairly well known. Some bottles I shot ins…
I wandered around downtown for a bit. Qu’il fait bon Qu’il fait bon is a dessert shop that actually started out in Shizuoka. I popped in while passing by, and the seasonal tart is 1,300 yen a slic…
There’s a castle near Shizuoka Station, so I went to check it out. This is the place Japanese castles tend to be really nicely turned into parks. Trees Seriously huge trees.. The entrance There was so…
The whole reason I went to Shizuoka was a Shigeru Mizuki exhibition. This is it… The Shizuoka City Museum of Art is right in front of the station, so I grabbed a meal at the station before heading over….
I had some time after eating, so I took a lap around Shizuoka Station. Nihonichi So there’s one here too… I was happy to see it, so I snapped a photo. A flavored tea shop They sold all kinds of t…
I had some business in Shizuoka, so I went over and stopped by a few good places while I was at it. Togakushi soba is actually from Nagano Prefecture, but for some reason there’s a famous soba shop in Sh…
Just posting a bit of this and that. Culinary Class Wars beef bulgogi gimbap Super Pan is a place I remember eating well at before. This wasn’t bad either.. but it comes out of a factory anyway, so I…
A roundup of assorted leftover photos. A USB-A & USB-C to C cable I bought for travel I bought it for charging, but swapping the adapter on and off is a bit of a hassle… and these things tend to bre…
I went to Palette Dessert. Why? To buy a dujjonku (Dubai chewy cookie), of course. This is probably the most famous dujjonku shop in the whole country. The scenery on the way May weather is lovely. Palette De…
Gana Tonkatsu House is a place serving tonkatsu in the style of a Korean gisa sikdang, a taxi-driver diner. Japanese-style tonkatsu shops are all the rage these days, but every now and then I get a craving for…