I realized after I left Tokyo last summer that I had managed to not eat any sushi. And as a person who isn't particularly in love with sushi this was okay but not a good thing. I like sushi but in the US it's just too expensive for something that doesn't make me full. So [...]
When I was small, like super small, back when vhs and video rentals were a thing, our local Kroger use to sell movies and rent movies and amongst all the VHS's for sale I found "My Neighbor Totoro" and managed to talk my dad into getting it. It was the only copy, with it's case beaten [...]
One of the things I told my friend I wanted to do was to see the bamboo grove and soon found out she had a field trip there while I was visiting. First I was disheartened but her teachers gave her the okay to bring me along, so we got up early and caught the [...]
When my flight ended up being so delayed we were worried about fitting in everything we wanted to do. But after a quick google search discovered that Fushimi Inari-taisha was open 24 hours, meaning after our dinner of okonomiyaki we could just go and see it at night. Fushimi Inari-taisha is a Shinto shrine located right [...]
Located in the Kyoto Porta near the Kyoto train station is where I had my first real meal in Kyoto, お好み焼きOkonomiyaki. The restaurant had a long line but since we were only three people willing to sit at the bar and not cook for ourselves we were let in before people who had been there longer. [...]
There aren't as many holidays this year so when I saw a 5 day weekend I jumped to plan a trip. Due to Children's day we got Thursday off and then Friday and Monday as well. So I got in touch with my friend whose studying Japanese at a University in Kyoto to see if [...]
