Pickle me pink!

As we start winding down our trip, we have another transit day today to Nagoya. Before we left, we had one last meal to have in Kyoto, and for pickle lovers, this was the dream meal. This was at Akoyachaya, and there was quite the waitlist by the time we showed up, about 20 groups,

Read More →

Here and there and back again

As with most parties/gatherings, one tends to be a bit slower in getting started the next day, and as such, we got off to a bit of a later start this morning. We made good on our desire to return to Nishiki market to properly sample their (mostly fried) foods for breakfast. After a nice,

Read More →

All that glitters is gold

As this is supposed to be a a travel blog, I cannot lie down on the job forever, so we have resumed our normal travel plans today. We’ve been spoiled on lavish breakfasts the past two days and as such, have kept to konbini (a bastardization of convenience store) food this morning, me with my

Read More →

Train-ing for the food olympics

Today is another short post/travel day. We concluded our onsen break today, by having another large Japanese breakfast, followed by another nap (much needed as it was quite warm last night.

Eating like gods

Today’s post will be mostly a food update. Breakfast was a very large breakfast of many things. Breakfast consisted of grilled fish cakes, egg, fish, pickles, tuna salad, porridge, nori, yogurt, tofu, miso soup, orange juice, and kiwi.

Let the goodness soak in

Nothing beats a vacation other than a do-nothing sort of day during your vacation. As warned yesterday, this post is short on activity and longer on food. Got my food in early with a few more konbini inari and a rather goopy and tasty soba noodle breakfast.

The view from the top

It was certainly a soggy day here, pretty much raining non-stop. Our island hopping concludes today with a visit to Miyajima. Before hopping on the ferry at Miyajima, we stopped at Anagomeshi Ueno, which has been doing anago bento for over 120 years, so of course we had to be a part of that. Breakfast

Read More →

Hopping along through a darker past

Today brings day two of our island hopping portion of the vacation, which means a trip to Okunoshima Island.

Miao!

Even on a vacation, it is especially important to keep your health in mind. While you may be improving your mental health not having to think about a job you hate or other stresses in life, it is key to not neglect your physical health. As such, today, unexpectedly, turned into a physical health day.

Read More →

Fugu-rific

Hooray for more time on the Shinkansen. Today is our travel day to Hiroshima, so not as much in this post on activities, but still, many tasty things to share. Having a lazy morning is always a nice thing to do during a vacation.