Kairakuen in Mito, Ibaraki
Mito is home to Kairakuen. Together with Korakuen in Okayama and Kenrokuen in Kanazawa, it’s one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan. I’d been wanting to visit for a while, and this time I finally …
Mito is home to Kairakuen. Together with Korakuen in Okayama and Kenrokuen in Kanazawa, it’s one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan. I’d been wanting to visit for a while, and this time I finally …
All sorts of events get held in Odaiba, and it turns out one of them is a circus. I went over Golden Week. This is the place. Quite a crowd turns up. The ceiling They blend steampunk with seriously high-leve…
I take photos for Instagram on a regular basis.. and I post them on the blog too. No particular reason, call it a backup.. A shrine Somewhere in Tokyo. Wander around and you’ll find plenty of nice spots…
I’ve been wandering around Seoul on weekends. It’s good exercise, and I need to buy food anyway. I mostly head to neighborhoods with a traditional market or a supermarket. Gongneung has a Chinese r…
Mame is a pretty well-known wagashi shop in Omotesando. Its ichigo daifuku (strawberry daifuku) is especially popular, so the line gets long in spring. The sign The shop The packaging Ichigo daifuku Good s…
Liquor Mountain has been in Ginza for a while now, but for some reason they’ve opened a more serious GINZA777. Well… nothing wrong with that. This is the place. It’s right in the heart of Gi…
Since I only ever shuttle back and forth to Japan, I never have a reason to fly business, but every few years I end up using the miles I’ve piled up. They had this display going on too.. Looks like ther…
The weather was nice, so I took some scenery shots. With weather this good, even iPhone photos come out pretty decent. Makes me wonder whether I really need a new camera… Well… compared to the ski…
Shunkado, the company famous for making unagi pie, Hamamatsu’s signature sweet, has built a sort of theme park (?) called nicoe. Besides unagi pie, they had all kinds of other products on display. The re…
We threw a Christmas home party, and as part of the prep I made a trip to Tsukiji Market. The scene there The scene there What struck me this time is that Tsukiji isn’t cheap, but when it comes to fres…
Search for La Chinata and you’ll find it’s a cosmetics brand famous in Barcelona, the kind local guides swear by. I’d heard a rumor that an acquaintance I’ve known for years had started…
I go to outlet malls to buy clothes fairly often. It’s not that I want to spend time or money on clothes, but for the sake of a working life you have no choice but to buy them… that’s about h…