Kouya no Ramen in Hamamatsu
Kouya no Ramen is a ramen shop with a Wild West theme. It’s one of the popular ninja-style ramen shops around Hamamatsu. The place You can spot the sign from far away. The other side They really commit…
Kouya no Ramen is a ramen shop with a Wild West theme. It’s one of the popular ninja-style ramen shops around Hamamatsu. The place You can spot the sign from far away. The other side They really commit…
L’atelier Tempo is a bakery… up on a mountain. It sits halfway up a hillside, in the kind of spot where you wonder what on earth could be out here, as a bakery and cafe in one. A place like this E…
Place Monge is a French bakery I visit often. The taste is a sure thing. Breads I used to think you had to go to a big city to see this level of quality, but the good shops out in the regions are really good …
I’d been to Saizeriya before and enjoyed it, so this time I went back for a revenge visit. By “revenge” I mean eating there with drinks. I usually get around by car, so I can only drink if I …
On the way home the weather was bad, so we stopped by a michi-no-eki. A michi-no-eki is basically a roadside rest station, and you can get there right after leaving the national highway. It connects to both di…
There was a Shingen mochi factory nearby, so I stopped in. A sign like this This is where they sell freshly made Shingen mochi. Besides the factory there’s all sorts of other stuff. There’s a rest…
Kasugai isn’t that remarkable a place, but there aren’t many places worth going to in Yamanashi. It has a hot spring and a buffet, so I picked it as a reasonable option. This kind of place The int…
Yamanashi grows a lot of grapes and has plenty of wineries. Mars Winery is one of them, and with so much free tasting on offer it’s worth dropping by. The place Lots of tour buses come through here too….
Saiseki no Kura is honestly not much different from the stone museum. I never expected to visit two of these places in one day. This kind of place There is an outdoor area here too, but this time I decided to…
There are plenty of michi-no-eki (roadside stations), but I did wonder what on earth a tabi-no-eki is. So I went to check it out. This kind of place A michi-no-eki sits by the road like a rest stop, where you…
We’d had our meal, so dessert was next, right? Straight off to the dessert shop. A hoto restaurant on the way The building looks like a spaceship. The line was long, too. It’s a place called Hoto …
I was wondering where to have lunch in Yamanashi and picked a soba place. Honestly, going to a hoto restaurant would have been the better call, but I couldn’t be bothered with the long line, so soba it w…