Breakfast at Boulangerie Comme Chinois
I’m up, so it’s time to eat. A quick search turned up a well-rated bakery near Sannomiya. Kobe streets in the morning A street with real atmosphere. I like it. The entrance of Boulangerie Comme …
I’m up, so it’s time to eat. A quick search turned up a well-rated bakery near Sannomiya. Kobe streets in the morning A street with real atmosphere. I like it. The entrance of Boulangerie Comme …
The best part of a Japanese matsuri has to be the food stalls. Without yatai, it just doesn’t feel like a festival. Yaki ramen, a Fukuoka specialty Yakisoba is famous all over Japan, but yaki ramen wa…
After the sandwich I headed to Sannomiya Station. I’d arranged to meet a friend who was going to show me around the Luminarie. Light decorations at Sannomiya Station Very Kobe. I met up with my friend…
Lunch had filled me up, but calling it a day right there felt like a bit of a waste. So I decided to squeeze in one more stop and headed over toward Kitano. The front of the Kobe Kitano Hotel It was on the w…
I was wandering around trying to decide what to have for lunch when I happened to stumble on a branch of Igrek. It’s on the 6th floor of the Uniqlo building near Daimaru. I’d already eaten a pretty…
On the morning of Saturday, December 11, I suddenly felt like seeing the Kobe Luminarie. It is apparently an event that has been held every year to commemorate the Great Hanshin Earthquake, and figuring that i…
On the last weekend of August, right in the thick of the heat, I took a trip out to the Osaka area. The theme of this trip was to enjoy what was left of the summer. Honestly, this summer was so brutally hot th…
I really love outlet shopping, so whenever there’s an outlet near wherever I’m travelling, I end up dropping by. This time, when I went to Kobe to burn through the last of the summer, there was a s…
A friend called me out, so I went to Kobe for the first time in a while. It was a day trip, the friend who invited me isn’t exactly a foodie, and it was pouring rain, so it wasn’t the most fulfilli…
The last stop on my Kobe trip was a pizza place called Pinocchio, which has a bit of history and is famous in this neighborhood, but for all its fame it wasn’t really that tasty. Still, Haruki Murakami a…
I’ve been to Kobe so many times that I know my way around and the usual sightseeing routes by now, but even so, doing shopping and sightseeing at the same time is no easy task. So I walked around diligen…
Haruki Murakami’s early novels are Japanese novels, yet they feel like American ones. You could say it’s John Cheever mixed with Jack Kerouac and topped with Richard Brautigan’s humor, and I …