I spent the first four days of my Golden Week (spring break in Japan) traveling around Hong Kong and Macau. I don’t know how much longer I’ll be in Asia so I want to travel both in and outside of Japan as much as possible. Hong Kong While I’ve been able to get in touch with my Japanese side during my time here I figured it was time to check out my...
On Monday, a couple foodie friends and I embarked on a food tour of Nagoya on foot, wandering to restaurants serving up Nagoya’s finest. Our Nagoya food tour included: miso katsu at Yabaton, dessert at Cafe Molly, and hitsumabushi at Shirakawa. Yabaton Honten- Yaba-cho The first stop on our tour was Yabaton, one of the most popular restaurants serving...
This last weekend I had three days off so I took a short solo trip to Sapporo and Otaru, the capital of Japan’s northernmost prefecture Hokkaido and its nearby tourist port city, respectively. Sapporo is famous for its snow festival at the peak of winter, and the rest of Hokkaido is known for its beautiful, blooming late springs. The prefecture...