Sushi
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Last Breakfast & Lunch in Tokyo
OK so it’s Sunday, we have a plane to catch, but before that we still have two amazing meals in Japan to enjoy! First order of business: fish market for breakfast. We wanted to try a new one, so alarms were set for seven AM and we were out the door by 7:30. We went… Continue reading
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Saturday in Tokyo
What an absolutely sick final meal!!!! Continue reading
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Sushi Lunch in Kobe
We walked to the national park just outside the train station, the park Robert and I climbed all the way to the top of last trip, but this trip we decided on an easy elevator up to where you can catch cable-cars all the way to the top! 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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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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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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On to Osaka
Notes from Wednesday May 9 2023: But first it’s time to say good-bye to the very comfy Strings Intercontinental Hotel. On the one hand it’s a huge generic corporate space, kinda boring to choose in a foreign country, but it was in a great location and I kind of like having the comforts of home… Continue reading