Asashio, a Ryokan in Hamamatsu
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…
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 …
There’s a cafe with the unusual name Tsutsu & tsuttsu over in Arai. A place like this? Apparently they used to run a coffee-related business, then came to this town and opened a cafe. A place like …
A lot of lovely shops have opened in a place called Arai. It looks like they’re running some kind of project together with the city. Places like this one It’s a renovated old kominka house. The at…
These are some scenery photos. An angler The harbor The shore The sea The shore The fishing port The sea The sea The sea The sea The sea The lighthouse The sea A path A cat It is a neighborhood …
Matsuzakaya was running a chocolate event too, and there were fewer people than at Takashimaya. Sure, there are fewer of the rare chocolates, but at least you can actually walk around, so I think this one is t…
There’s a place in Nagoya called Kirby Café. First, a word about Kirby: it’s a character from the Kirby games and manga, and this is a shop selling goods and food built around that character. Japan…