Today, I’m going to tell you about what is my favorite udon restaurant in Takamatsu and just one of my favorite restaurants in town overall. It’s called Oshima-ya and their specialty is wakame udon! And by wakame udon, I do not mean regular udon with some wakame in the soup. […]
Matsunawa
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Last week-end I moved, and left Matsunawa, the neighborhood that I called home for the past five and a half years. Worry not, I didn’t leave Takamatsu and I don’t see that happening in the foreseeable future. I just changed neighborhoods and left my apartment that had become way […]
Noda-ike is a reservoir not too far from my house and from where one can see some pretty cool sunsets when you don’t have the time or the opportunity to admire them from an island or from the port.
If you’ve ever been through a typhoon, hurricane or cyclone, you know that once it’s over, if you didn’t sustain much or any damage, it’s always a special moment. Sure, there’s the relief that it’s over, but there’s something else; the skies are always more beautiful than usual. Here […]
Kumano-jinja is a very simple and small neighborhood shrine like so many other in Japan. It’s one of those shrines that are not tourist destinations, and as such, I tend to find them more “normal.” I have a soft spot for Kumano-jinja, maybe because it’s one of the […]
As we’re in October and that rice is getting harvested little by little, October Matsuri are popping up here and there too. This week-end it was my neighborhood’s shrine, Kumano-jinja‘s turn. We decided to spend some time there today. Not everything went according to plan as rain showers coming […]
A short while ago I showed you pictures of a rice field after a thunderstorm. Here are more recent pictures of that same field near my house. The rice is ripening and should be ready for harvest pretty soon (it was planted later than most fields in town, and […]
A short while ago, just after a thunderstorm, I went down to the rice field near my house and took the following pictures: The pictures could be better, but this way they give you a glimpse of my learning of using […]
One of the things I like the most in my neighborhood, is that I’m not always sure whether I live in town or in the country.
