A Record of the Year-End Blizzard in Shimane
Finally kicking off my 2011 posts. Over the New Year holidays we got an enormous snowfall, and I was basically stranded at home. It wasn’t exactly a happy time for me, but I’m leaving a record of i…
Finally kicking off my 2011 posts. Over the New Year holidays we got an enormous snowfall, and I was basically stranded at home. It wasn’t exactly a happy time for me, but I’m leaving a record of i…
The original plan was to have breakfast, head straight to the outlet mall to buy some winter clothes, and then go home. But things got tangled up one way or another, and it looked like I’d end up in cent…
After the sandwich I headed to Sannomiya Station. I’d arranged to meet a friend who was going to show me around the Luminarie. Light decorations at Sannomiya Station Very Kobe. I met up with my friend…
I don’t really plan it, but somehow I seem to end up in Roppongi a lot. You can shop and you can eat well, so it’s just convenient in all sorts of ways, I guess. This day I had plans in Roppongi ag…
I have friends in Tokyo and there are tons of great places to eat, so I go there regularly. I usually take the shinkansen, but this time, for a change, I tried traveling by sleeper train. You leave in the even…
Since I was out for once in a long while, I decided to wander around the area. Mihonoseki sits at the very tip of the Shimane Peninsula. It’s mostly known for fishing, but a fair bit of traditional cultu…
I visited my friend who lives in Shirokane again. We see each other often, so I already know this neighborhood pretty well. From what I hear it’s a bit of a tough place to live, but well.. that kind of t…
On the last weekend of August, right in the thick of the heat, I took a trip out to the Osaka area. The theme of this trip was to enjoy what was left of the summer. Honestly, this summer was so brutally hot th…
I really love outlet shopping, so whenever there’s an outlet near wherever I’m travelling, I end up dropping by. This time, when I went to Kobe to burn through the last of the summer, there was a s…
After finishing a long lunch at Pierre Gagnaire, I strolled around Insadong to walk it off. Honestly, after such a satisfying lunch it would have been nicer to linger in the afterglow a bit longer, but my life…
Last month I made the time to go to Pierre Gagnaire, said to be the best French restaurant in the country. I’d wanted to go for ages, but its opening hours never gave me a chance, until I heard a rumour …
For a friend who came all the way to visit, I booked a room at Kasuien Minami, the most popular onsen ryokan around here. With the wagyu course it came to a little over 20,000 yen per person, which is actually…