Kirby Café in Nagoya
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…
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 …
I was over in Hakdong and there was a new burger place, so I went in. The place The menu They seem to be going for a healthy look, but.. can a burger made of fried chicken stuffed into a bun ever really be g…
Zeya is a cocktail bar, and it turns out they serve some lovely original cocktails. Water A truly lonely cucumber (a pun on chamoe, the Korean melon) As I remember it, it wasn’t bad at all. Inside It&…
I don’t really know the Jongno area, but apparently there’s a beef soup place called Uyungmyeongwan where people queue up for the beef noodles. That place did so well that the owner opened a Chines…
There’s a hotel at Goteo, the Express Bus Terminal, and it’s a handy spot for meeting people in Gangnam. Second floor I just had time to kill, so I took this one.. The Lounge menu It’s on t…
Yeongdeok Hoesikdang in Chungmuro is so popular that you have to get there early. Last time I showed up at six and there wasn’t a seat left.. so this time I went even earlier.. Makhoe (raw fish tossed wi…