Our Adventures in Japan

My host mom sent me these sweets from Ogurasanso for my birthday My mom loved Ogurasanso's arare, which she was first introduced to by M...

When we visited Naritasan , I found some "peanut brittle type" of arare (rice crackers). I looked online to see if there was a s...

Been enjoying these snacks... This version of arare with peanuts by Sanko Seika is flavored with ume (pickled apricot), sprinkled with coa...

Some things I've been eating (and drinking) since I returned to Japan...Drinks...this Tropicana boxed juice. Last year, I tried a simi...

Today is Halloween. They don't do house to house trick-or-treating here (at least not in my neighborhood anyway), but slowly there are ...

Today after my lesson, I jumped on the train to Kyoto. There are a lot of places to holo-holo (hawaiian for "go wandering")--eate...

Today Satoshi went back to work. (Actually, he had to work on the 2nd of January! This year, he didn't really have much time off. Mos...