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KYOTO DAY 3
イノダコーヒー本店(INODA COFFEE) ビーフカツサンド＋プレミアムコーヒー、￥２２２６。 Breakfast. A massive queue outside the shop! Most of them carrying Kyoto guidebooks….just like me. ^^;;; Beef cutlet sandwich and Premium coffee. Very...
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KARUIZAWA (軽井沢)
A day trip to Karuizawa! One-way ticket is about 5000yen but a friend got us a cheap 6000yen two-way ticket so there we go. It is only about 1hr from Tokyo station so a day trip is totally possible....
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Gunma hotspring trip DAY 1
Minakami(水上) station in Gunma（群馬） Prefecture. From Ueno station in Tokyo, it is about two and a half hour to three hours by train. There are a few souvenir stores right in front of the station, but...
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Gunma hotspring trip DAY 2
On the second day, we travelled by train and then by bus to a different hotspring called Ikaho onsen（伊香保温泉）. We stayed in Hotel Kogure（ホテル木暮）. The hotspring is more modern style, more spa-like than the...
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Nagoya 1
山本屋総本家 (Yamamotoya Souhonke) There are many branches(even one in Tokyo which I went before!), and this one is the original shop. 親子味噌煮込うどん。 Nagoya’s famous miso nikomi udon. I had the one with both...
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Nagoya 2
あつた蓬莱軒 本店 (Atsuta Horai-ken Honten) うまき、￥８４０。 Umaki – Unagi Tamagoyaki. Came steaming hot. Light dashi taste with a hint of sweetness – good! ひつまぶし、￥２７４０。 Hitsumabushi – basically unagi(eel) on rice....
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Fussa (福生)
A day trip to a place called Fussa where the Yokota Air Base is located – hence slightly Americanized. Somehow we didn’t see any foreigners on the day we went. La Fougasse (ラ・フーガス) First we went to...
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Doutou (Eastern Hokkaido) DAY 1
Nenrinya (ねんりん家) Breakfast at Haneda airport. Hot Baumkuchen. Not fleshly baked but only warmed in the microwave. They have savoury baumkuchen sandwich too but don’t have the courage to try…Menu here....
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Doutou (Eastern Hokkaido) DAY 2
After a quick dip in the hotspring and a nice breakfast, we took a walk to the hill behind the cottage with the owner’s dog. Beautiful Lake Mashu(摩周湖) Second softcream from Kurimu Douwa(くりーむ童話)....
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Doutou (Eastern Hokkaido) DAY 3
After breakfast at the hostel, we headed for Shiretoko National Park(知床国立公園). Hikarigoke(Luminous Moss). You can see the moss from the right, but not from the left. Seseki hot spring(left pic) is a...
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