The garden at the back of Huis Ten Bosch There were so many couples walking hand in hand through the flower fields. Damn.. Flower beds Lots of kids too. If it weren’t for the discount ticket after 5 …
Right after eating a Sasebo burger I was about to head straight to Nagasaki, when I spotted a sign for Huis Ten Bosch along the way. Places like this are usually for couples and families, so as a single guy I …
For the May Golden Week holidays I did a loop around Kyushu. I’d originally meant to go abroad, but work was so busy that I switched to a domestic trip instead. The first stop was Sasebo, a city known fo…
Having come all the way to Tottori, I couldn’t just leave without eating somewhere good. I asked someone who used to live around here if they knew any good places, and off we went. The place we ended up…
Honestly, the sand sculptures themselves were just so-so. I got tired after looking around for a while and was taking a break in the area with the food stalls and souvenir shops, when all of a sudden a troupe …
April was so busy that after I got back from Kyoto I didn’t go anywhere and just worked. Then one day a friend asked if I wanted to go see some sculptures made of sand, so off we went. On the way we sto…
So here it is, finally my last Kyoto post. ^_^ Having come all the way to Kyoto, I felt I’d been eating pretty carelessly so far, so I went looking for a kamameshi place with a good reputation on Tabelog…
I found out about an interesting place from a blog I often visit. It’s a cake shop in Kyoto called Ghost, and unusually, it sells cakes made with alcohol. The blogger raved that they tasted amazing, so I…
Since hanami was one of the three goals of this trip (the other two being good food and going somewhere I’d never been), here are some cherry blossom photos. The sky was dark, so only a handful came out …
There’s one place in Kyoto that’s famous for bo-zushi. Bo-zushi is sushi made from fish that spoils easily, cured in vinegar and left to mature before eating. As expected it isn’t cheap, but …
I introduced this place the year before last, I think. It’s famous for Kyoto’s local cuisine, yet oddly it hardly shows up in guidebooks. Last time an SD card problem wiped out a whole bunch of my …
After a slightly disappointing meal, the first place I headed to was the two Hongan-ji temples. Two famous temples, Nishi Hongan-ji and Higashi Hongan-ji, stand not far from the station. They’re easy to …