Ichiran, Nakasu-Kawabata
I’d just arrived in Fukuoka and had drunk a bit too much the night before, so breakfast obviously had to be tonkotsu ramen. After some thought about where to go, I headed to the Ichiran in Nakasu-Kawabat…
I’d just arrived in Fukuoka and had drunk a bit too much the night before, so breakfast obviously had to be tonkotsu ramen. After some thought about where to go, I headed to the Ichiran in Nakasu-Kawabat…
After Shimonoseki, the next stop was Fukuoka. During Golden Week, Hakata is famous for a huge festival called Dontaku. Not that I had much interest in the festival itself, but schedule-wise there wasn’t …
To keep the high from the whale meat I had at lunch going, I headed to a whale-cuisine specialist I’d bookmarked in advance. As is so often the case with places like this, it was tucked into a corner of …
I think wandering around unfamiliar streets might be the real joy of travel. A place that’s everyday life for someone, where they make their living, and maybe the hometown they miss… I want to see …
Ganryujima is about 10 minutes by boat from the Shimonoseki mainland. At first I figured the pier must be somewhere closer to the island, but when I asked the information staff at the fish market, they said yo…
For Golden Week I did a northern Kyushu trip again, same as last year. The first stop was Shimonoseki, a place Koreans know from the Treaty of Shimonoseki. In Japan it’s famous for winter fugu, but, well…
This visit was more than two weeks ago now. I’d heard that Kokoan (香古庵), a sister restaurant of an onsen ryokan in the Daisen area of Tottori Prefecture, opened back in February, so I went to see what it…
At long last I’ve found the time to sort out the rest of the photos from my Osaka/Kyoto trip. This time I was traveling with my elders, so we ended up eating at department-store restaurant floors not onc…
I’ve had way too much work this week (damn you, Hibernate) and couldn’t give the blog any attention. Milking the Kyoto travelogue for a whole month is starting to prick my conscience. The busy stre…
The standard Kyoto sightseeing route is probably Kiyomizu-dera / Kinkaku-ji / Ginkaku-ji / Sanjusangen-do. We’d already done our cherry blossom viewing in the morning, so we figured we’d do some si…
Kyoto has such a long history that its traditional cuisine is famous, but a lot of the places go for an upscale concept, so they’re not cheap. Serious gourmets won’t hesitate to spend what it takes…
Here are the photos I took on the way down from the Philosopher’s Path, past Heian Jingu Shrine, to Kyoto City Hall. The whole city is overflowing with cherry blossoms. This is why Kyoto in season is suc…