A Trip to Shizuoka and Hamamatsu
A long weekend for the first time in a while – although Japan has plenty of long weekends. Feels like there’s one almost every month.. Anyway, with the holiday here, I’m off to Shizuoka becau…
A long weekend for the first time in a while – although Japan has plenty of long weekends. Feels like there’s one almost every month.. Anyway, with the holiday here, I’m off to Shizuoka becau…
This July I ended up wandering all over the city. I had some business in Kinshicho around lunchtime, so while I was there I stopped by a local favorite. As some of you may know, Kinshicho has plenty of Chinese…
Shibaura, the stretch between JR Tamachi Station and JR Hamamatsucho Station, has a small canal running through it. It isn’t used for moving freight the way canals in Korea are, it seems to be purely orn…
Odaiba is famous as a tourist spot, but it also has big shopping malls and is easy to reach by car, which makes it a handy place to go shopping. I had a lot of things to buy on this trip to Japan, so I ended u…
I left Korea at the end of June and came to Tokyo. That was already three months ago T.T At first I was so busy that looking after the blog never even crossed my mind, and now that I finally sat down to upload…
After my lunch date wrapped up… another cake date came up, so I headed for Roppongi. Fiorentina, the lounge-cum-cafe on the first floor of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, is very famous for its cakes, and its cak…
Hanabusa, a well-known Japanese restaurant, sits closer to Ueno or Okachimachi than to Akihabara, really. Dinner here is excellent, but the place has a big reputation for its 1,000-yen lunch set, which changes…
I do like chocolate, but I had never paid much attention to Japan’s chocolate specialists – until a visit to Patissier Inamura Shozo the other day changed my mind. Turns out Japan has places that d…
A friend of mine has an apartment in Asakusa, so I went over there to sort out a place to stay. A glass of Glenlivet Nàdurra My friend was running late, so I waited at a bar nearby over a glass of whisky. T…
By the time I got back to Tokyo it was already night. Wondering where to go and what to eat, I headed to Rokurinsha, the ramen shop in Tokyo Station. A view of Nakadori What a dazzling night street. A view …
Even on a tight travel schedule I still fit in an onsen ryokan. What a busy life this is.. Hamamatsu is about two hours away by Shinkansen. We stayed at an old hotel called Kaishunro, said to be the most famou…
I picked up a copy of Sweets Bancho’s The Ten Supreme Sweets at Sanseido, read the whole thing that evening and went straight into analysis mode. ^_^ Turns out there are so, so many cake shops I still ha…