So, a few days ago, I went to Ritsurin Garden for a very special visit (as a “linguistic consultant” if you like), so I didn’t take any pictures, except from one spot: Kikugetsu-tei, that is Ritsurin Garden’s main tea house. I hadn’t been inside in years, literally (not a […]
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Something quite unique happened on Sunday. The very first Wordcamp Ogijima! In case you don’t know, Wordcamp is a series of conferences around and about WordPress. It’s the event where WordPress users, developers, coders and more gather, meet, network, etc. What is WordPress some of you may be asking? […]
Near my house, there’s a small park on the coast with a lone torii. I wonder why it’s there, alone, without a shrine. I mean, sometimes it can happen, places where there used to be a shrine, but it disappeared, not its torii. However, in this case, […]
Asahi is one of the ferries for Naoshima. A few weeks ago, it got a new paint job (not sure if it’s been remodeled inside or not). This is what it looks like now: Now to tell you the truth, I’m a bit confused. Until recently there […]
Winter is finally coming to an end! It’s great news for many reasons. One of them is that it means that it’s strawberry season! And there is a place in Takamatsu that only grows strawberries, but where you can also pick them yourself and eat them on site! This […]
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. […]
If you’ve been to Takamatsu, you must have seen this sculpture located in the Sunport. I don’t really know anything about it except that it’s been there for as long as I’ve known Takamatsu and it’s one of the landmarks of the neighborhood.
I know, one of Japan’s New Year tradition is to go see the first sunrise of the year. Honestly, it’s not a tradition I’m too fond of; too cold and too early for me. So instead (and it started well before Japan actually, the first I can remember is […]
In case you’re wondering, this is what Takamatsu looks like seen from Yashima. 🙂 Remind me to show you what Yashima looks like from Takamatsu. 😉