Our Adventures in Japan

After seeing this on a television show, I wanted to get it and finally found it at different location of Seria. It is supposed to make ...

I've seen these guys, usually at Tokyu Hands. I'm not really one to sample things before buying, but the lady selling these kept p...

If you've ever wanted to bring home Japan with you and like the flavor of sakura (cherry blossoms), I would suggest getting some sakura ...

Since we had bought that organic green tea from the Shimabara/Nagasaki food fair, I thought it might be nicer to enjoy this ground up like ...

After that krazy lunch ...I went to check out the mall up the street, before catching the bus back home. As I was wandering in my favorite...

I think I first heard about this tea from a television program. Mitsuura Brewery makes several types. Even one where the lemon is formed...

If you've been reading this blog for awhile, I think you know how much I love MUJI. I recently saw this "make your own gift"...

After 46 years Yamazaki, the company that used to make Ritz crackers and Oreos in Japan, parted ways with Mondelez (Nabisco's head compa...

Awhile back, I made mille feuille in my frying pan with a cover. On a recent trip to visit MIL, I asked Satoshi to look for a donabe (cla...

They were having a masking tape fair at Hankyu Department store the other day... How cute was the MINI all dressed up in the tape?! I di...

We've been enjoying these dried apple slices. The apples are from Aomori, a prefecture in Japan known for their apples. My favorite i...

Saw these drying blocks called "soil" at a zakka (knick-knack) shop and my friend, Kazumi gave some to me recently. (Thank you!) ...

What do you do when you open a package that doesn't have a "zip" type top? Put several rubber bands around it to close it? ...

Our electric coffee mill recently went to "coffee heaven". I have a feeling it was because I used to wrap the cord around the mi...

I got a new yutanpo (the one on the right). It is a little "slimmer" and smaller than my old one (the one on the left). Both ...

When I think of masking tape, I see this beige tape that doesn't always stick. Nowadays, masking tape has a new face...pretty colors, ...

Suteteco is the Japanese word for men's long johns. The summer version is made of thin cotton and the winter version is made of a soft...

The roses are in bloom again at Aramaki Rose Park, so I packed us a breakfast bento to eat at the park. I had been seeing this foldable ty...