Onomichi Scenes 2
I’ve gathered some of my personal favorites from the photos I took in Onomichi. Tyrannosaurus A Stegosaurus, if I remember right The very idea of building a dinosaur park inside a factory was fun. Judg…
I’ve gathered some of my personal favorites from the photos I took in Onomichi. Tyrannosaurus A Stegosaurus, if I remember right The very idea of building a dinosaur park inside a factory was fun. Judg…
I used a rare long weekend to visit Onomichi. Onomichi is a port town about 80 km from Hiroshima, and like Okayama it’s a transport hub with an expressway linking Shikoku to the mainland. The main goal o…
Apparently the latest trend in Japanese ramen is collaboration. Two famous ramen shops, Kukai and Kamado, have teamed up and opened a ramen shop in Shibuya. Funnily enough, this one shop sells the menus of bot…
I went to Steak House Hama, a teppan steak specialist that’s famous even in Tokyo. It turns out it’s inside a place in Meguro called Gajoen, so while I was there I had a look around Gajoen too. The…
After the wedding was over, we went to DisneySea (Disney Sea). The Land is bigger, but people say the Sea side is more fun. Well.. I should go to both someday.. The globe near the main entrance. Impressive, b…
The waiting room before the reception had light snacks and drinks laid out. Bruschetta and a Campari orange (probably). The taste was so-so… but I really appreciated how much thought they’d put int…
I’ve been so busy lately that travel was out of the question, but somehow I ended up going to Hiroshima as an extension of work -_- This is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. It’s a park built rig…
A collection of random, who-knows-what photos I took in Hiroshima. Rainbow It poured all night until dawn, then stopped right around sunrise. A pretty rainbow came out, but it didn’t come out well in th…
Of all the ramen chains that went national and got famous, like Ippudo, Ichiran and Kamukura, there’s one I still haven’t introduced here. It’s Santouka, which has 11 branches in Tokyo alone….
I used the weekend to go leaf-peeping at the Tachikue Gorge, which is close to where I live. Once I got there, though, it didn’t look like autumn-leaf season yet. -_-;; It’s November, is this reall…
On the first morning I looked around Tofuku-ji, and by the time I came out it was lunchtime. While wandering around deciding where to eat, I went into a place that for some reason had a long line out front. I …
This Kyoto trip was on a really packed schedule, so I didn’t get to prepare much. Even flipping through the tabearuki (food-crawl) guide series, nothing really grabbed me. From a quick look around, it se…