A Record of the Year-End Blizzard in Shimane
Finally kicking off my 2011 posts. Over the New Year holidays we got an enormous snowfall, and I was basically stranded at home. It wasn’t exactly a happy time for me, but I’m leaving a record of i…
Finally kicking off my 2011 posts. Over the New Year holidays we got an enormous snowfall, and I was basically stranded at home. It wasn’t exactly a happy time for me, but I’m leaving a record of i…
The original plan was to have breakfast, head straight to the outlet mall to buy some winter clothes, and then go home. But things got tangled up one way or another, and it looked like I’d end up in cent…
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…
I don’t really plan it, but somehow I seem to end up in Roppongi a lot. You can shop and you can eat well, so it’s just convenient in all sorts of ways, I guess. This day I had plans in Roppongi ag…
I have friends in Tokyo and there are tons of great places to eat, so I go there regularly. I usually take the shinkansen, but this time, for a change, I tried traveling by sleeper train. You leave in the even…
Since I was out for once in a long while, I decided to wander around the area. Mihonoseki sits at the very tip of the Shimane Peninsula. It’s mostly known for fishing, but a fair bit of traditional cultu…
Maybe because rent isn’t all that high and it’s close to central Tokyo, Koenji is full of young people living on their own. A lot of my friends who moved up from the countryside live around here to…
I went out to Shinjuku for lunch and really struggled to decide where to go. Having come all the way to Tokyo, I couldn’t just eat any old thing. So I headed to the Park Hyatt hotel in Shinjuku, making a…
I visited my friend who lives in Shirokane again. We see each other often, so I already know this neighborhood pretty well. From what I hear it’s a bit of a tough place to live, but well.. that kind of t…
I got to Tokyo around 11, and even though I had a lunch appointment at 1, I still needed a little palate-warmer first -_- so I headed straight to Ginza. The plan was to finally try a top-notch shio ramen speci…
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…