I got to Hakata Station, the western end of the Shinkansen line, at 9 in the morning. Looking around for something to eat, I found a few places in the station basement serving breakfast. I guess that’s w…
I went to Karo no Uron, a hand-made udon specialist that has been in business in Fukuoka for 130 years (“uron” is Hakata dialect for udon). It turns out it’s near Nakasu. There are plenty of …
Having come all the way to Fukuoka, I couldn’t just eat ramen the whole time. I’d decided to skip sushi, soba and wagyu on this trip, so I was thinking of trying a French or Italian place, and this…
I went to Hassho, a famous Hiroshima okonomiyaki spot. I couldn’t find anywhere decent to go for dinner -_-;; The entrance. A pretty ordinary atmosphere. First I order a draft beer. One cold draft beer…
I got back from Fukuoka early and wandered around the streets of Hiroshima. The main reason? This! The Legend of Ultraman exhibition It was on at the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum. I’m a fan of the U…
I used the weekend to go to Fukuoka. I left at 3 a.m., got to Hiroshima at 7, and took the shinkansen to Hakata Station in Fukuoka, arriving at 9. I didn’t get back to the hotel until after midnight and …
Nagahama ramen, the byword for Fukuoka’s famous tonkotsu ramen, has spread all over Japan. It’s become a proper name, just like Sapporo ramen, Kitakata ramen or Onomichi ramen. There happens to be …
Here are a few autumn photos I took over the weekend. The days have already gotten a lot shorter. It is well and truly autumn. If I can find the time, I would love to make a trip to Kyoto.. I took these at a p…
It was Health and Sports Day in Japan, so I had the day off. To look after my health a bit, I went up Mount Daisen, the hill out back in my neighbourhood -_- The autumn sky is clear. It comes out this blue ev…
This is the station in front of my place. I just snapped it as I was setting off. Waiting on the platform for a train to Yongsan… What I like about Incheon is that the trains don’t run undergroun…
I met up with some friends I hadn’t seen in a while in Yeouido. Since it was a long holiday weekend, we went back and forth on where to go and ended up at Mad for Garlic. Well… a safe choice, right…
Somunnan Kalguksu is a place I used to go to all the time back in college, whenever I stopped by Yongsan to buy computer parts. Given what I was majoring in, I had plenty of reasons to be in Yongsan. When I we…