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FIRE!!!

Himatsuri is a festival held in a small town at the base of Mount Fuji called Fujiyoshida. The festival is centred around the Sengen Fuji shrine, in which a deity is enshrined. On this one night she is...

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Hiking from Tsumago to Magome

Last weekend, in an effort to fulfill goal number 3 (being more sociable), I arranged a trip to go hiking in the hills outside Nagoya with a couple of friends. In reality, it ended up being hiking with...

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(A bit more than) The week in one post

When I left you a few weeks ago, I signed off with “…I’m meeting Tyler, a friend who I have known since we were at Narita, for lunch. This evening it’s kata practise and running, before an early...

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MokuMoku

MokuMoku is probably the bestest restaurant in the whole of Nagoya. The fact it’s a buffet and I’m a pig has nothing whatsoever to do with this fact, oh no siree. Despite having been twice already,...

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Nara

Knowing that my parents are coming to Japan next year, Hitomi kindly offered to take me to Nara to do a reccee for their visit. Along with Nikko and Kyoto, Nara is generally considered one of the...

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Friends and chicken wings

Last Saturday we had something of a goodbye party for Tyler, who left yesterday to go back to the States. We started off in the Oxo, a “British pub” in Kanayama that has good happy hour deals....

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Shinden staff party

Here are a few snaps of the end-of-term party forShinden. We went to a restaurant and had a beautiful multi-course meal with all-you-can-drink beer and sake for 90 minutes. As you can imagine, everyone...

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O-Hanami

On Saturday Hitomi (aka Kato-san) and I went to check out the cherry blossoms at Iwakura, a town just north of Nagoya which is famous for having a river which is lined for several kilometres by chery...

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Sugar-tastic

I entered a competition on the Nagoya International Centre website to win tickets to the Nagoya Sweets exhibition. Having forgotten about it, I was surprised to open my mail box and find two tickets...

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Mochi machine

Mochi are Japanese sweets made from pounded sticky rice and normally filled with sweet red bean paste. You have probably read me talking about them before, or heard me writing about them, becuase I...

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