Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Matsumoto has lots to offer its visitors: sake breweries, wasabi farms, the world’s largest private collection of ukiyoe (woodblock prints) and not forgetting one of Japan’s best preserved and visually striking castles. But, unfortunately, many visitors are here just for one day. With the time constrained punter […]
Food & Drink
Pass me the corkscrew
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! The other evening I found myself drinking a nice drop of red and my mind was inspired to drift back to to my time living in the beautiful prefecture of Yamanashi. Why, you may ask, did this Argentinean vino remind me of my Japanese adventure? Well, though […]
Monday night in Shinjuku, Tokyo
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Omoide Yokocho
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Monday April 18th 7pm was the last night and our final dinner of the first Hidden Japan tour of the year. We were in Shinjuku, the bright neon heart of central Tokyo. We ate at a traditional izakaya (Japanese diner). Earlier in our tour, we had a memorable picnic under the sakura […]
Sakura, sushi and scotch eggs.
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! We are almost ten days into our Hidden Japan tour. It has been perfect picnic weather almost everyday. The sakura (cherry blossoms) are in full bloom, so on Sunday, we took advantage by having a hanami picnic of sushi, bananas, soba noodles and scotch eggs. Like this post? Help us by sharing […]
Stories of bottled soft drink shortages in Tokyo just don’t hold water
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Amidst reports of Tokyo mums buying up bottled water for their babies, let’s not overlook the vast array of flavoursome soft drinks on offer in Japan. Factoid of the day number 1 – there’s a vending machine for every 12 citizens in Japan (including a couple at […]
I ordered BEER, not ice-cream!
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Many a gaijin (foreigner) has grumbled at the size of the frothy head on their chilled mug of draught beer in an izakaya in Japan. To us westerners, and particularly the brits, a pint is a sacred thing, and being offered anything less than a full pint […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Many a gaijin (foreigner) has grumbled at the size of the frothy head on their chilled mug of draught beer in an izakaya in Japan. To us westerners, and particularly the brits, a pint is a sacred thing, and being offered anything less than a full pint […]