Night Scenes of Toyohashi
The town centre of Toyohashi turned out to have a surprisingly solid food scene. When I went there was an event on called Hashigo Night, where you buy a coupon and get to eat and drink on the cheap. As a resul…
The town centre of Toyohashi turned out to have a surprisingly solid food scene. When I went there was an event on called Hashigo Night, where you buy a coupon and get to eat and drink on the cheap. As a resul…
I doubt the name Toyohashi rings a bell for anyone… it sits at the far edge of Aichi Prefecture, close to Shizuoka, and it was the setting for the Japanese drama “Minna! Esper Dayo!” (Everyon…
When you think of Aichi, or Nagoya, one of the famous things is ankake spaghetti. So… ankake is a sauce you see a lot in Chinese cooking, and someone grafted it onto spaghetti, which makes it a sort of n…
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…
There is an area of Hamamatsu called Sanaru. It has a lake that formed naturally, and that lake is called Lake Sanaru. It is not all that far from central Hamamatsu, and since there is a park laid out around t…
I had some free time over the weekend, so I dropped by this park in Arai, Kosai. Rode my bike all the way around it. A place like this A typhoon had come through the day before, and yet, somehow, there were s…
Super Nintendo World opened at USJ during the COVID years and it has been getting a lot of attention… but there were so many people that it was hard work. Mario Cafe This is a cafe you can just queue up…
When you come to an amusement park like this, it’s best to eat lunch a bit early. I’d been walking around all morning and was worn out, so I just ducked into a place where the line looked short. A …
I knew there was a Harry Potter theme park at USJ, but in the end, if you want to go, there is so much to see and so many people that you have to set aside a whole day for it. The entrance It has a bit of a S…
They were running a SPY×FAMILY collaboration, so I gave it a go. SPY×FAMILY Secret Mission It was a bit convoluted.. but a lot more people were taking part than I expected. The SPY×FAMILY food truck They sel…