Our Adventures in Japan

It's Golden Week here in Japan. There are several holidays lined up at the end of the week. There was also one this past Saturday......

Saturday, after Satoshi's German class, I wanted to try a Chinese shop, but the line was krazy, so we decided to look for somewhere else...

Saturday after Satoshi's German class, we had lunch at Yamamoto, a tiny yoshoku (western-style) shop. When we arrived a customer was f...

While waiting for Satoshi to finish his class, I was walking around and stumbled upon Foodscape. This past Saturday, I went to check them ...

It seems that we've jumped from Spring head first into Summer... The daytime temps have been quite warm. At least early mornings an...

Before Golden Week started, I went to check out the other spots that were supposed to have Noda Fuji ...that was a bust. Most of the plac...

Satoshi and I tried Cafe Dona the other day. This cafe is quite small, only 3 tables and some seating along a counter. I like that the o...

The other day Satoshi had an appointment so we grabbed a quick bite at Sanku. Satoshi went with the large udon (380 yen) topped with abura...

We recently checked out Kissa Stove. Kissa is the Japanese word for "tea house". This cozy shop is about 10 minutes from the J...

I think it was reader Alan who asked me about negiyaki. Negi is green onion and yaki means to grill/cook. Negiyaki Yamamoto was started ...

So after all that rain, thunder & lightning...we got cooler temps, the weather is so weird. Yesterday Satoshi had the day off and we h...

Sosaku ryori Kakehashi is a restaurant located in a quiet neighborhood in the Fukushima area of Osaka. Sosaku means creative, original. T...

Monday started off blazing hot. Satoshi had the day off, so we headed to Umeda for some errands. It actually took us several years to visit ...