Our Adventures in Japan

It's that time of year when I get together with my host-mom & my host-brother's wife for lunch. Today, we went to Menu, the ti...

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. It isn't a holiday here, but Black Friday is slowly catching on here. Since Satoshi went out o...

Yesterday, I walked twenty minutes to Sakurai intending to shop at Daiei. I didn't realize (until I got there) they were renovating an...

Sunday, we checked out Haconeco-do, a relatively new cafe near the Hankyu Sakurai station. In Japan, there are cat cafes, dog cafes even o...

Usually on the weekends, Satoshi and I run into the same question, "where to go for dinner" We have several places in our rotati...

I had planned to meet up with Hiromi last week, but we had to postpone due to the typhoon. Yesterday, it was raining! but we decided to st...

I don't think I've ever told you about Anri's sweet potato tartes. They actually make two kinds...this purple one and a yello...

Monday I went walking around and checked on the huge cherry tree in Sakurai. It was beautiful. There were also some weeping cherry. I l...

Yesterday, we woke up to a light dusting on the roof tops and flurries in the air. While I was all excited, Satoshi crawled deeper in bed ...

It has been awhile since I've talked about food... Well, while one doughnut shop closes , another opens. The Donuts Dept. opened so...

Friday night, Satoshi had a party with his university baseball team as well as other university baseball teams. Every year it is quite a l...

While Hawaii has all these frozen yogurt places popping up, around these parts there are all these donut shops popping up. Near the Sakura...

It has been awhile since I've done a liking/disliking post... Let me start with the disliking...Mahou Negra, a dark beer from Mexico, ta...

About a 10 minute walk from where we live, is a tiny shop called Pignon. I have bought their creme brulee in the past and have tried some of...

Do you take a tea/coffee break in the afternoon? Since moving to Japan, I notice that I do almost everyday. Grob Ofen is a tiny shop located...

Mondays here are when most businesses take the day off. Satoshi's mom needed some documents, so I needed to go back to the city office. ...

Merry Christmas Everyone For breakfast this morning, we had stollen, salad, sliced apple and coffee. Stollen (shu-toll-en) is a bread-l...