Kobe Chinatown（神戸中華街）
Chinatowns are located in three major cities: Yokohama, Nagasaki, and Kobe. Yokohama is the largest, followed by Kobe. Previously, I wrote an article about Yokohama Chinatown. Kobe’s Chinatown is located in Kobe’s Nankinmachi. Not far from JR and Motomachi station…
The only Slovenian restaurant in Japan “Pikapolonca” with the ladybugs（日本唯一のスロベニア料理店＝テントウムシ＝ピカポロンツァ）
When I hear of Slovenia, it was hard for me and probably any Japanese people to imagine where it was. Even if you hear that it is a country of the former Yugoslavia, unfortunately there are very few information that…
Ramen & Italian restaurant “Coccinella” in Nishi-ku, Osaka（ラーメン＆イタリア料理店 コッチネッラ 大阪市西区）
In the second largest city in Japan, Osaka, there is a green park called Utsubo Park in the center of the city. The restaurant Coccinella is located close to it. Excuse me, but it doesn’t have a high-class feel, and…
Tasty conger and beautiful sunset in Nushima Island, Hyogo Prefecture (兵庫県沼島の鱧と夕日)
The Japanese archipelago consists of four mainlands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, and many islands. Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture, which boasts the 7th largest size, has an island that can be said to belong to it. That is Nushima…
An easy and healthy dish in Beppu Onsen “Jigoku Mushi”（地獄蒸）
I like hot springs. I wrote some articles before. Beppu in Oita Prefecture is famous for hot springs nationwide, and is also called “Hot spring capital”. They say that there are the most types of hot springs in Japan. Here,…
Chinatown in Yokohama
Yokohama is a city that has developed as the outer port of Tokyo. It is often contrasted with Kobe, which has a similar history as the outer port of Osaka. But Yokohama is larger in many ways in terms of…
Let’s eat raw fish deliciously
As to Japanese custom , what surprises people from overseas is that Japanese people like to eat anything raw. They think they may fed old things and get stomachache. However, although I was born and raised in Japan for about…
Vermont Curry
The curry rice with a Japanese style arrangement is different from the original Indian one. Adults and children in Japan both like it. Easy to make and delicious. Vermont Curry has once become a hot topic with visitors from North…
Sapporo is a city where food manufacturers try to sell new products
I lived in Sapporo for 6 years at the end of the 1980s. Since I was a person from the countryside, the city was big enough for me, if not as big as Tokyo or Osaka. The history of the…
Raw horse meat
Previously, when I went out for dinner with visitors from North America, one of the most rejected was horse meat. In particular, a friend from Canada who lived in Japan for about two years and worked with me together said,…
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