I heard a decent place had opened in Arai, Kosai, so I went to have a look. Here it is. Everyone is far too good at interiors these days. The menu Oddly enough, the exterior says cafe, but the menu is packed…
Posting a bit of everything. Coffee shop Red Sun A really old coffee shop, and something about it feels like Abcb, the cafe from Kimagure Orange Road. Jagarico Wasabi Soy Sauce For some reason the potato sti…
I tried to have pizza for lunch, struck out because there were no seats, and took another run at pizza in the evening. The entrance Here you can at least get in if you queue up. But it is right in front of th…
Here are some photos I took while wandering around downtown Nagoya. A spot like this The center of town was absolutely packed. The further out you go, the fewer people there are, though. Looks like it was a B…
Nagoya Station is the transport hub, but the real heart of Nagoya has to be Sakae. In Seoul terms it’s something like Jongno or Gwanghwamun, I suppose.. A place like this There’s a plaza, plus all…
Nagoya has plenty of good bakeries too, but a lot of them are a bit far to reach on a short trip. That is exactly why the bakeries in the Takashimaya department store, connected straight to Nagoya Station, are…
Nagoya has its famous things. An-butter toast (sweet red bean paste and butter on toast), for instance. Honestly, I suspect people who actually live in Nagoya could not care less about it, but I am a tourist, …
Marrons glaces Lotte really seems to have a knack for these seasonal releases. Somehow it genuinely tastes close to real marrons glaces. It’s like chocolate with chestnut and brandy mixed in, and for th…
I had a wander around central Yaizu. Sake Big There really are a lot of places like this. There are carp in there. Starbucks It feels like it was built quite recently. A motsuyaki joint (grilled offal) Som…
Search for Yaizu and the Yaizu Sakana Center always comes up. Yaizu has a fairly sizeable port, and all kinds of fish are landed there – tuna, sakura shrimp, shirasu and so on. The entrance It is big. L…
If I just say “Tokaido Fujieda-shuku,” you’re probably wondering what on earth that is. Back in the Edo period there was a highway running between Kyoto and Tokyo, and along it, much like the…
I heard there was a famous bakery in Fujieda, near Yaizu in Shizuoka, so off I went. One thing I definitely feel, though, is that getting around rural Japan without a car is not easy. This time I just walked i…