Hotel Clad in Gotemba
I felt like taking a trip, so off to Gotemba I go. While I’m at it I’ll buy some clothes too, killing two birds with one stone. These days it’s hard to buy clothes unless you go to an outlet …
I felt like taking a trip, so off to Gotemba I go. While I’m at it I’ll buy some clothes too, killing two birds with one stone. These days it’s hard to buy clothes unless you go to an outlet …
Sorachi 1984, the legendary hop A beer built around bright, zesty hops. Fruity. Red Eye.. Tastes like tomato juice.. Hoptandu Korean beer has definitely gotten better.. but I am not sure about this one.. Ki…
Sawayaka’s hamburg steak in Shizuoka is famous all over Japan. I asked how it got that famous, and apparently Nagasawa Masami recommended it on TV. Anyway, everyone says it’s delicious and the line…
The weather was nice, so I took some scenery shots. With weather this good, even iPhone photos come out pretty decent. Makes me wonder whether I really need a new camera… Well… compared to the ski…
There are a few places to visit in Gotemba besides the outlet mall. The distillery is somewhere I had wanted to go for ages, but there was the constraint that I could not go unless a friend who drives and does…
Lately, whenever I fly into Japan, I’ve been going through Nagoya airport and heading on to Shizuoka. Might as well drop in on the relatives while I’m at it. Sashimi from the supermarket Yo…
We arrived at our first destination, Hamamatsu in Shizuoka, and had a light dinner. The place is a Japanese restaurant called Bansho, the kind of countryside spot where all sorts of dishes come out together on…
I went to the zoo on my day off. It looks small from the outside, but the whole zoo is built into a hillside, so it took a long time to walk around. The sky Trees Meerkats Lion …
One day I got such a craving for Qu’il fait bon’s cakes that I went and bought a bunch. Citrus tart Strawberry and berry tart Walnut tart Seasonal fruit tart So good…
I’d heard there was a well-known sushi place in Hamamatsu called Shinkoma, so I stopped by. Lunch menu Lunch menu Tempura Lunch menu Lunch menu Lunch menu …
I had a get-together in Hamamatsu, and we visited a temple to eat shojin ryori, Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. It was just before the cherry blossoms bloomed. Shojin ryori Everything was made fro…
Hamamatsu is a city roughly halfway between Tokyo and Osaka. I was there for about a week on business. Here are some photos I took while moving around. Train station It’s the countryside, so the …