rond point, a brunch cafe in Kosai
In a corner of Kosai called Arai, the old town has been left standing as it was, and the city is running a project to convert the old houses there. For Koreans, think of the remodelled hanok in Ikseon-dong — i…
In a corner of Kosai called Arai, the old town has been left standing as it was, and the city is running a project to convert the old houses there. For Koreans, think of the remodelled hanok in Ikseon-dong — i…
Kosai City sits right next to Hamamatsu City, and just beyond that is Toyohashi in Aichi Prefecture. So while it is technically a city in Shizuoka, you could say it is closer to Aichi. I spotted a ramen shop b…
Korean restaurants started popping up in every neighbourhood in Japan at least ten years or so ago. Part of it is simply that yakiniku is Korean food to begin with, but lately the more serious, properly Korean…
chocott is a small dessert shop run by a Cordon Bleu-trained pâtissier. You might be surprised that somewhere this serious exists out in the countryside, but country folk actually make pretty decent money.. wh…
Asakusaken is a well-known ramen shop in Hamamatsu. The place It is not the easiest place to get to, yet it is always full of people. Out in rural Japan everyone gets around by car, so I suspect that as long …
Sushiro is, to put it plainly, a very ordinary conveyor-belt sushi chain. It is just a chain, so I figured we could turn up whenever and be fine – which was naive, because when we got there the queue was…
BBQ has made its way into Japan, and now they’ve opened in Hamamatsu too. There’s a Costco nearby, plus Xebio and mont-bell, so I stopped by while I was over there anyway. The place It feels more …
I heard there was a special ramen shop in Hamamatsu, so off I went. Daruma Seimenjo This is the place.. When I got there the queue was pretty long, so I waited about an hour before getting in. On the way̷…
Tenkin is a place in downtown Hamamatsu famous for its tendon. The line is long whenever you go, and when a place out in the provinces has people queuing, I trust it even more than the ones people line up for …
I had some business in Hamamatsu, so off I went. The sky on the way there Hamamatsu has an air force base, so you see contrails all the time. They fly especially often when something like the G7 is on. What W…
There’s a bakery called Yamamoto Pan-ya in Ohiradai. Since I’d come all the way out to Ohiradai anyway, I dropped in here too. Shokupan Danish Bread Bread Baguette Bread Bread Choco cornet …
Ohiradai is the neighbourhood right next to Lake Sanaru. A well-off area, in other words.. I came to visit a good dessert shop in this neighbourhood. The place It’s a residential area, but the sun was a…