Food
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First Day in Sendai
We chilled at the new hotel for a bit, anticipating dinner at Sushi Toku, which is the chef’s name. Toku, not Sushi 😀 We have very few pictures suddenly, but we headed out beforehand to this weird tiny little bar (I wanna say on the third floor?) where a very charismatic bartender/owner entertained us for… Continue reading
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Morning in Aomori
Woke up six-ish feeling pretty good, jet lag is over with, I think, finally. We have the morning here in Aomori before we head off to Sendai, where we actually stay multiple nights lol First order of business is breakfast at the Aomori fish market of course! But there’s a twist: in this place, you… Continue reading
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Trip to Aomori
First bullet train of the trip!! Hakodate is the northern-most end of their reach, so Matt has never been on one before–I’m looking forward to his reaction. This train line will take us through the Seikam Tunnel, the world’s longest at 53.8km. As always, these trains are literally as smooth as glass, you can’t even… Continue reading
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Morning in Hakodate, Off to Aomori
It was a jet-lag victory: slept in ’till 7:00AM! We all headed to the local fish market for breakfast of course, and adventures were had. The abalone was a bit of a shock. It was large, and every now and then would give a small slow squirm. We didn’t really know how to approach it,… Continue reading
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Morning in Sapporo, Dinner in Hakodate
Still early enough in the trip that we’re still fighting jet-lag, but this morning I managed to easily sleep in ’till 6:00AM! Huge victory! (Turns out that Matt managed 9:15 so he totally won). Anyway, being up with little to do, Robert and I went out for an early breakfast of pastries as an unusual… Continue reading
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Last Night in Sapporo
Cannot believe we’re already having our final Sapporo dinner! But we are, and this one is gonna be a doozie, Death By Sushi lol like a hundred courses of it, all absolutely top-notch. These meals have to go according to tradition: first you have a bunch of appetizer dishes, then the chef switches to nigiri… Continue reading
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Day Trip from Sapporo
Today’s first adventure was to first get through the night, then blearily make it to the train station so we could have breakfast at the Otaru fish market!! Because where else would one have breakfast other than at a fish market??? Despite how amazing breakfast was, there was still one more task to complete, finally… Continue reading
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First Full Day in Japan
I should think about renaming this series “Eating Our Way Through Japan” because that’s pretty much what we did. The food scene of Japan is world-famous, justifiably so, and we tried our best to be worthy of it. The first day in Sapporo saw breakfast at the fish market, lunch at a grill-your-own place in… Continue reading
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Last Full Day in Italy
(more endless notes from March/April 2025) I know I advertised this post as being the last day… but it actually begins the night before 😂 Big moment coming up: our final dinner in Italy! We had asked the hotel to book us somewhere special… but after hiking around all day, we changed our minds: we… Continue reading
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Random Roma
We only just arrived this afternoon from Todi, but it’s dinnertime so we head out. Still desperate for something different, we googled “Indian near me” and found a pretty legit place. So legit in fact that they don’t ask you your preferred spice level, you will just eat it as it is served to you! Continue reading