Tabi-no-eki in Yamanashi
There are plenty of michi-no-eki (roadside stations), but I did wonder what on earth a tabi-no-eki is. So I went to check it out. This kind of place A michi-no-eki sits by the road like a rest stop, where you…
There are plenty of michi-no-eki (roadside stations), but I did wonder what on earth a tabi-no-eki is. So I went to check it out. This kind of place A michi-no-eki sits by the road like a rest stop, where you…
We’d had our meal, so dessert was next, right? Straight off to the dessert shop. A hoto restaurant on the way The building looks like a spaceship. The line was long, too. It’s a place called Hoto …
I was wondering where to have lunch in Yamanashi and picked a soba place. Honestly, going to a hoto restaurant would have been the better call, but I couldn’t be bothered with the long line, so soba it w…
Kawaguchiko sits at the foot of Mt. Fuji. It’s one of the Fuji Five Lakes. This area is simply a tourist destination: you get a great view of Mt. Fuji, and there’s a big lake. Anyway, a whole bunch…
The Stone Museum looks like some kind of museum, but it’s actually a gemstone experience center. Yamanashi is hugely famous for gemstone production, so you’ll find facilities like this all over the…
I went on a trip to Yamanashi. The weather was really nice. Shoji Mount Hotel The reason I went to the hotel first wasn’t because I was staying there… it’s because this place is a famous dra…
I feel like I’ve been to Tatsunoko Ramen far too many times… so I’ll keep the explanation brief. Menu The moyashi (bean sprout) ramen in shoyu flavor is the most basic choice. Moyashi ramen …
I heard a tiny bakery had opened in Kosai, so I went to check it out. The place Apparently this is a shio-pan (salt bread) specialty shop. Turns out it’s not just a Korean craze; places like this are po…
tompa is a shop that mainly sells general goods online. They carry stylish items, and since they have a physical store, I went to check it out. The menu at the entrance They don’t just sell goods, they …
An oyster ramen shop opened in downtown Hamamatsu. Oysters are only in season in winter, so I wondered how a ramen shop could be built around them, but once I went there I understood. The place It seems to be…
Saizeriya has always been a famous chain, well known for being really cheap. Still, I had never been, and going this time I realized the problem was with my own thinking. Soup Well, it’s perfectly edibl…
Here’s a random roundup of odds and ends. A mattress packed up and shipped over from Japan It’s an Italian mattress called Magniflex, which I bought in Japan and had flown over to Korea. I bought …