Our Adventures in Japan

I kind of stopped making my own granola because it was hard to find reasonably priced maple syrup, so we’ve been trying all kinds of granola...

Over the weekend, Satoshi ordered Shine muscats from his friend. He said he ordered 2 kilos but it looks like it might be more...with shippi...

1st time trying to make umeshu (plum wine). The directions were similar to when I made ume syrup  (5 years ago). 1kilogram ume 1 kilogram ro...

It is grape season here as well. I wanted to get my hands on some Pizzutello Bianco  (the pointy grapes that we tried in the past), and foun...

We woke up early the next morning but Mount Fuji was still "sleeping". Breakfast was quite heavy (for me)...an omelette, ham, sa...

From Shinjuku, it is about 2 hours by train to Lake Kawaguchi in Yamanashi Prefecture. We've visited this area quite a few times over ...

Another thing we bought were these instant peach curries from Yamanashi prefecture. I had heard about this before and had it in the back o...

"Koshu" refers to the north-eastern part of Yamanashi prefecture. It is also where wine is produced. On our recent trip to ...

In yesterday's post, I mentioned that we had some delicious bread with our dinner. The bread was baked here at a tiny shop and cafe cal...

From the Kawaguchi-ko station, Gasthof Melange, a bed and breakfast is about 10 minutes away. While most hotels and pensions (bed & br...

I saw a photo of this event on the internet last year and told Satoshi about it. The festival was supposed to run from April 29th until Ma...