Café Macolinne in Hamamatsu
Café Macolinne. In Japanese it comes out as “Makorinnu”, a name that somehow makes me think of makgeolli, but it’s a stylish little café in central Hamamatsu. The place Apparently the curry …
Café Macolinne. In Japanese it comes out as “Makorinnu”, a name that somehow makes me think of makgeolli, but it’s a stylish little café in central Hamamatsu. The place Apparently the curry …
There’s a cafe with the unusual name Tsutsu & tsuttsu over in Arai. A place like this? Apparently they used to run a coffee-related business, then came to this town and opened a cafe. A place like …
A lot of lovely shops have opened in a place called Arai. It looks like they’re running some kind of project together with the city. Places like this one It’s a renovated old kominka house. The at…
These are some scenery photos. An angler The harbor The shore The sea The shore The fishing port The sea The sea The sea The sea The sea The lighthouse The sea A path A cat It is a neighborhood …
Matsuzakaya was running a chocolate event too, and there were fewer people than at Takashimaya. Sure, there are fewer of the rare chocolates, but at least you can actually walk around, so I think this one is t…
There’s a place in Nagoya called Kirby Café. First, a word about Kirby: it’s a character from the Kirby games and manga, and this is a shop selling goods and food built around that character. Japan…
February 14th is Valentine’s Day every year… I wonder whether everyone has been eating their chocolate. For some reason I can’t explain, in Japan everybody and their neighbour goes mad trying…
I had work in Nagoya, so I paid it a visit. On the way.. It’s closer than I expected and it doesn’t cost all that much either. At this rate, if I pushed myself a little, I could even commute there…
Laboratory is an unusual place that serves seafood and shirunashi (soupless) tantanmen at the same time. This is the place.. In the evening it seems to turn into a drinking spot. The menu There is maguro, th…
Lake Hamana is famous for the Lake Hamana Bypass and the Lake Hamana seaside park. Normally it’s a spot only the people who know about it bother with, but every now and then they hold an event there. An …
Japan has a lot of places where the local economy is genuinely humming, and I suspect it comes down to each region having its own big company to anchor it. In Hamamatsu, that would be the likes of Yamaha and S…
I went to Japan in January 2023. Covid had pretty much stopped affecting things by then, and if anything the airport felt busier than it did before Covid. Take it easy and turn up late and you could genuinely …