Nagahama Ramen Hakataya Near My Place
Nagahama ramen, the byword for Fukuoka’s famous tonkotsu ramen, has spread all over Japan. It’s become a proper name, just like Sapporo ramen, Kitakata ramen or Onomichi ramen. There happens to be …
Nagahama ramen, the byword for Fukuoka’s famous tonkotsu ramen, has spread all over Japan. It’s become a proper name, just like Sapporo ramen, Kitakata ramen or Onomichi ramen. There happens to be …
Here are a few autumn photos I took over the weekend. The days have already gotten a lot shorter. It is well and truly autumn. If I can find the time, I would love to make a trip to Kyoto.. I took these at a p…
It was Health and Sports Day in Japan, so I had the day off. To look after my health a bit, I went up Mount Daisen, the hill out back in my neighbourhood -_- The autumn sky is clear. It comes out this blue ev…
This is the station in front of my place. I just snapped it as I was setting off. Waiting on the platform for a train to Yongsan… What I like about Incheon is that the trains don’t run undergroun…
I met up with some friends I hadn’t seen in a while in Yeouido. Since it was a long holiday weekend, we went back and forth on where to go and ended up at Mad for Garlic. Well… a safe choice, right…
Somunnan Kalguksu is a place I used to go to all the time back in college, whenever I stopped by Yongsan to buy computer parts. Given what I was majoring in, I had plenty of reasons to be in Yongsan. When I we…
I went with a friend to Il Cipriani, the Italian restaurant in the Shinsegae Department Store main store. I’d heard rumors that it tops the list of Korean Italian restaurants for value for money, so I we…
I went back to Korea for the Chuseok holidays, and as luck would have it there was a gizzard shad meetup at Maknae, a place I used to go to a lot. Really I should have organized a welcome-home meetup myself, b…
Lately I’ve had a bit more breathing room, so every time I come back to Korea I’ve been trying new wines with a friend who’s into wine. On this visit we threw a small party at my friend’…
The Oki Islands are made up of five large islands. On day two we set off early in the morning for the next island. Saigo Port Photos like this make me want to shoot with a Carl Zeiss lens. The sparkling morni…
I went to a place called the Oki Islands. They’re about 70 km off the Japanese mainland, something like Ulleungdo back in Korea. The scenery is stunning enough to be part of a national park, but apart fr…
I went to Uchida, an izakaya in Shinsaibashi (the sign reads Shukoudokoro Uchida). At a Japanese izakaya you can try all sorts of dishes with all sorts of drinks, so it can actually be a better place to enjoy …