Ochazuke at Minami
Even Matsue in Shimane Prefecture, where I live, has one restaurant that’s famous nationwide, so I went to check it out. (It took me six months of living here to find even one, sob.) The place is called …
Even Matsue in Shimane Prefecture, where I live, has one restaurant that’s famous nationwide, so I went to check it out. (It took me six months of living here to find even one, sob.) The place is called …
The weather was nice for once, so I decided to go up a mountain near my place. It’s called Daisen. A shot from the road to Daisen. On the way I stopped by the Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography. He’…
Driving home on the expressway from Kanazawa, I ended up passing through Kyoto. I had a bit of time, so I decided to wander around the city for a while. After circling downtown a few times, I stopped at a book…
I got into Kanazawa late the night before, found a place to stay, and was out walking around from the morning. Kanazawa has a simple layout, with the main sights lined up more or less in a straight line. You j…
The 17th was Marine Day, a public holiday in Japan too. It was a rare three-day weekend, so I just hit the road with no plan at all. The destination was Kanazawa, about 500 km away. That’s roughly Seoul …
I went to the Adachi Museum of Art, one of the few tourist attractions in Shimane Prefecture, where I live. It shows modern Japanese artworks gathered by a private collector named Adachi, and the quality of th…
On the morning of day two I met up with a friend who lives in Tokyo, for the first time in ages. We were both so busy that morning was the only time we could meet, so we decided to drop into a hotel nearby and…
At noon on day one I arrived at the Chisun Hotel, a business hotel in Hamamatsucho, Tokyo. It’s close to Haneda Airport and cheap too, so I saw plenty of Korean guests. I didn’t have time to go any…
The theme of this trip was shopping and checking out newly opened sights, so I barely paid any attention to food. So I ended up visiting a lot of ramen shops, Japan’s own fast food that you can enjoy qui…
Original title: Sushizanmai Conveyor-Belt Sushi in Tsukiji, Tatsutano in Ginza, Pierre Marcolini, and Horaiya in UenoWhen you arrive in Tokyo in the morning, Tsukiji is about the only place worth going for a m…
A photo of vases at the IKEA that opened in Funabashi, Chiba on April 24 I queued for an hour and a half to get in, and it was worth the wait. (For reference, the store is about the size of a decent soccer fi…
I’ve sorted through the photos I took with my 3-megapixel phone camera and put them up here. Wherever I go, I never forget to take pictures and eat well. Music, photography, good food and travel are my l…