Our Adventures in Japan

One of the supermarkets in our area called LIFE, has an organic brand called Bio-Ral (According to their press release, it is a combination ...

Since Family Mart was having a Hokkaido Fair and we can't travel we bought some foods to eat our way through Hokkaido. Chicken skin chip...

If you visit Hokkaido, one of their local foods is called Genghis Khan, which should actually be called Mongolian Barbecue. Not to burst you...

Sadly another natural disaster occurred early Thursday morning...a huge earthquake in Hokkaido. They said it was 7 magnitude. Many homes...

I think these berry tomatoes were from Hokkaido. They kind of looked like scotch bonnet peppers, so I made sure to re-read the sign at the...

Whenever they have Hokkaido fairs in Osaka, I try to see if they carry Bocca's products because we love their yogurt drinks...super thic...

Our last day in Hakodate started off with the monkeys at the Tropical Garden (which was next door to our hotel) screaming from their hot spr...

Breakfast on the 4th day, was pretty impressive. Salad, corn potage, yogurt with some blueberry jam, fruits, breads and grilled salmon, th...

Day 3 was "warm". Instead of the minus temps, we were in single digits, which meant, the snow was melting and we were walking aro...

The next morning, we awoke to what seemed to be a clear day, though that wouldn't last very long...breakfast was at the Asaichi (morning...