Scenes from January 2023
The sea view LaLa Curry Scenery Scenery Scenery Scenery The sky is magnificent. …
The sea view LaLa Curry Scenery Scenery Scenery Scenery The sky is magnificent. …
Asashio is a ryokan and restaurant with real history and tradition behind it. Apparently it gets used for banquets a lot too. Ieyasu and Naotora They’ve been turned into characters and you see them used…
Hachiko Ramen It’s pink because it’s tantanmen flavour. Supposedly the taste of Akita, home of the Akita dog… well, it wasn’t all that spicy, so it went down fine. Fried egg flavour po…
Hamamatsu has plenty of good bakeries, and Place Mange is pretty much top of the pile among the French ones. I couldn’t find a single thing about it that falls short of any bakery in Tokyo. Pear tart Ch…
Hwayo X.Premium I think it was 120,000 won at the duty-free shop.. The price is not all that steep, but if you ask me whether it beats a whisky in the same price range, I honestly can’t say. As a gift b…
Hamamatsu has an onsen town called Kanzanji. It sits right beside the lake, so the scenery is lovely, and it is a tourist spot with all sorts of facilities like an amusement park and a zoo. The amusement park …
In Japan they call strawberry picking “strawberry hunting.” There are harvest experiences for all kinds of fruit all year round, not just strawberries, but strawberries have to be the best of them,…
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 …
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 end up having to go over to Hamamatsu a lot these days, so the posts will keep coming. You never know how life is going to turn out. An old warehouse A tsunami evacuation tower You see structures like this…