Today, I’m gonna tell you about the nerdiest thing I have done related to the Setouchi Islands, and probably one of the nerdiest things in my life. See, when I first started visiting the islands 10 years ago, for some reason (I forgot what it was) I started counting how […]
Winter
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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 […]
Last Sunday, the weather was perfect. Well, as perfect as it can be for February. Not a cloud in the sky, almost no wind, and while it was cold, it wasn’t too cold. The perfect day to go to an island (or a temple? believe it or not, I still […]
Spring is coming and I’m a white rabbit. I have excuses. The past two weeks have been some of the most hectic in recent memory (this post should have been posted 10 days ago, whoops), as I’m finally quitting my current job, and preparing for the new job has […]
The first outing of the year was supposed to be Ogijima on the 2nd, but due to most to bad time management, we didn’t go. So instead, the first outing of the year was the following day when we went to a spot I had meant to go for […]
While oden is probably the typical “winter staple food” in Japan, I don’t think that anything beats a hot bowl of ramen and some gyoza when it’s cold outside (as well as inside, after all we’re talking about Japan here):
Yesterday, despite the rain, I got together with my friend Cathy Hirano and her friend Ando-san, to start our tour of some of the islands to see the preparations for the Setouchi Triennale which starts in almost a month. Takamatsu Station plaza, on Monday morning, under the rain. Must […]
I had never been to Ritsurin Garden in winter before. That changed on January 1st as it was the destination of our first outing of the year. It may not come as a surprise that it is probably not the best time of the year to discover the garden […]
One thing that perplexed me the first time I went to Ogijima was the fact that the main if not only thing that was promoted in the area as an incentive to visit the island was its daffodil fields that bloom around this time of the year (that was […]
Very often in Japan, the limit between outdoors and indoors is pretty blurred. It’s great when you’re in a tea house in the Ritsurin Garden. Not so much like now in the middle of winter when it’s almost as cold inside as it is outside. On a completely […]