What I Ate This Weekend..
Yoshinoya has started serving gyudon again and is running an event called the Gyudon Revival Festival. It’s a limited-time gyudon sale ahead of the official relaunch in December. Remembering the bowls I …
Yoshinoya has started serving gyudon again and is running an event called the Gyudon Revival Festival. It’s a limited-time gyudon sale ahead of the official relaunch in December. Remembering the bowls I …
As soon as I got to Hakata Station I had breakfast first and then headed straight for Karo no Uron, but even though I ate at 9 and strolled over slowly, I got there before 10 -_-; So with loads of time to kill…
I got to Hakata Station, the western end of the Shinkansen line, at 9 in the morning. Looking around for something to eat, I found a few places in the station basement serving breakfast. I guess that’s w…
I went to Karo no Uron, a hand-made udon specialist that has been in business in Fukuoka for 130 years (“uron” is Hakata dialect for udon). It turns out it’s near Nakasu. There are plenty of …
Having come all the way to Fukuoka, I couldn’t just eat ramen the whole time. I’d decided to skip sushi, soba and wagyu on this trip, so I was thinking of trying a French or Italian place, and this…
I went to Hassho, a famous Hiroshima okonomiyaki spot. I couldn’t find anywhere decent to go for dinner -_-;; The entrance. A pretty ordinary atmosphere. First I order a draft beer. One cold draft beer…
I got back from Fukuoka early and wandered around the streets of Hiroshima. The main reason? This! The Legend of Ultraman exhibition It was on at the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum. I’m a fan of the U…
I used the weekend to go to Fukuoka. I left at 3 a.m., got to Hiroshima at 7, and took the shinkansen to Hakata Station in Fukuoka, arriving at 9. I didn’t get back to the hotel until after midnight and …
Nagahama ramen, the byword for Fukuoka’s famous tonkotsu ramen, has spread all over Japan. It’s become a proper name, just like Sapporo ramen, Kitakata ramen or Onomichi ramen. There happens to be …
Here are a few autumn photos I took over the weekend. The days have already gotten a lot shorter. It is well and truly autumn. If I can find the time, I would love to make a trip to Kyoto.. I took these at a p…
It was Health and Sports Day in Japan, so I had the day off. To look after my health a bit, I went up Mount Daisen, the hill out back in my neighbourhood -_- The autumn sky is clear. It comes out this blue ev…
The Oki Islands are made up of five large islands. On day two we set off early in the morning for the next island. Saigo Port Photos like this make me want to shoot with a Carl Zeiss lens. The sparkling morni…