Oginoya inside Karuizawa Station
Oginoya is the place in Karuizawa famous for kamameshi, rice steamed and served in its own little clay pot, and they have branches all over. There’s one in Tokyo too.. anyway, since we’d been out a…
Oginoya is the place in Karuizawa famous for kamameshi, rice steamed and served in its own little clay pot, and they have branches all over. There’s one in Tokyo too.. anyway, since we’d been out a…
Flatbreadz has to count as one of Karuizawa’s specialties too. Everything is made with local wagyu and vegetables and bread from Asanoya, after all. I really like that kind of concept. When you travel so…
The shopping mall in Karuizawa has been redone, and a lot of good places to eat have moved in. Coming back to Karuizawa after a long time, there was shopping, there was good food, the scenery was lovely and so…
Maybe because Japan has so many mountains, it has plenty of highlands too. Head up into the highlands and the scenery is somehow different, and with ranches around, the local ingredients are a bit different as…
Having come all the way to Karuizawa, I could hardly skip its most famous restaurant. Auberge de Primavera is a French restaurant well known among Tokyo gourmets. It has even appeared in Drops of God. I had t…
There was a Hoshino Onsen area near our pension. Of course the most famous place around here is Hoshinoya Karuizawa, but I didn’t see much point in staying at a pricey ryokan, so I’d planned to ski…
I was going back and forth on where to stay in Karuizawa, and by the time I’d made up my mind, all the decent hotels were already booked. That’s peak season for you. So my fallback was a pension, w…
The first place I visited after arriving in Karuizawa was the Mercian Museum. Those who know Mercian will know it as a brand of inexpensive Japanese wine. The museum is run by Kirin, famous for its beer, and b…
If you ask which restaurant is the most famous in Karuizawa, it would probably be the French place Auberge de Primavera. Not only did it appear in The Drops of God, it makes it into most of the gourmet guidebo…
I went to Karuizawa to catch autumn a little early. I had a feeling this autumn would slip by before I had a chance to enjoy it. It took exactly an hour from home. I had no idea the Shinkansen was this fast. T…