The Dandan Food Festa at Matsue Station
The season has finally come to post the storm of entries I’ve let pile up. It’d be nice to post things ahead of time, or at least regularly, but that was never going to happen -_- Anyway, the week…
The season has finally come to post the storm of entries I’ve let pile up. It’d be nice to post things ahead of time, or at least regularly, but that was never going to happen -_- Anyway, the week…
After a really thorough shopping trip at a big supermarket in Izumo called Youme Town, we visited Shimane Winery and Izumo Taisha. It was cold, but we covered all the main spots. It’s the same Japan, but…
I got to Matsue Station at the crack of dawn and took these photos on my way home. They’re just scenery shots, so I don’t think they need much explanation. …
I figured I’d spend this weekend holed up in my room as an internet zombie again, but a last-minute plan came up and I ended up back at Naniwa Sushi, a place I’d been to before. The sushi, as alway…
Tsuwano is a town with a long history. Around here it’s also called “Little Kyoto,” and tourists come flocking every day. Sweetfish (ayu) was the main reason for the trip, but since I’d…
This spring I had a truly wonderful ayu (sweetfish) dish at Acqua Pazza, an Italian place in Hiroo. It was so exquisite that it stayed on my mind for ages. So I went looking for a place in Japan that does ayu …
There’s a small sushi place near (?) where I live that caters to the locals. It’s a good spot I’ve wanted to introduce for a while, and this time I somehow got lucky and managed to bring my c…
This was my third visit to the Adachi Museum of Art. Having been there so often, the garden doesn’t move me the way it did the first time, but the artworks change every season, so there’s always so…
Kurume is a town in Kyushu, roughly halfway between Fukuoka and Kumamoto. It’s famous for Kurume ramen, which is either a compromise between the punchy Kumamoto ramen and the mellow Hakata tonkotsu ramen…
The town where I live is famous for crab. Well.. probably because it faces the East Sea (the Sea of Japan)? I’d been thinking about going to a crab specialist once before winter ended, and then I heard a…
The garden at the Adachi Museum of Art, which an American garden magazine picks as the best garden in the world every year, is said to look its finest after a snowfall, so this winter I made up my mind and wen…
Japanese-style izakaya seem to be popular in Korea too, but I doubt they can match the flavors you get at an izakaya in Japan. (Not that I have any intention of dropping by a Korean izakaya to check…) I …