Tag: food
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Universal Studios in Japan
I hope you all had a wonderful christmas! I had a really good Christmas with lots of really nice little things, for me and the baby. I really can’t wait to finish the photos from Japan, so I can start uploading more recent photos. This year is going to be very different from all other…
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Shibuya and Harajuku.
After being in Tokyo for a while we wanted to enjoy just being in the city, without any sort of agenda, so after trying to get tickets to the Ghibli Museum and failing miserably — we should have gotten it ages in advance (we *will* go back) — we decided to enjoy ourselves walking around…
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Climbing Enoshima.
Before I start rambling about baby clothes and baby strollers and so on, let’s finish the photos from Japan, yeah? Yes. After a wonderful day and an even better night at Robot Restaurant, we took the train and headed out to Enoshima. This is a veeery tiny island connected to the mainland through a bridge.…
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Asakusa and the Skytree.
Back in July, on the 18th was Keoshi’s birthday, so we knew we had to push it to the limit, even if being in Tokyo was already pretty much doing that. We strolled around Asakusa, bought a crazy amount of stuff, ending up with our hands full of bags right at the beginning of the…
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back to Tokyo.
The first day back in Tokyo we headed out to try something very different — Ramen. Ah but not the usual kind of Ramen, a deconstructed Ramen. The flavours were incredible, and I can still remember how decadent that fried chicken was, how it fell from the bone, how juicy and flavourful it was and…
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Kiyomizu-dera.
Kiyomizu-dera was founded in the early Heian period (…) in 798, and its present buildings were constructed in 1633, ordered by the Tokugawa Iemitsu. There is not a single nail used in the entire structure. It takes its name from the waterfall within the complex, which runs off the nearby hills. Kiyomizu means clear water,…