Whoa! Now those are some fireworks! Holy crud, this is insane. I don't think I've ever seen fireworks this bright and colorful and I've been to the Omagari Fireworks Festival before! Didn't know that Mie had such amazing fireworks. All of the good fireworks festivals are so far away from Tokyo 😂. Just more reason to explore other areas of Japan though I suppose. Apparently this is the Kihoku Lantern Festival too so I'd get to see some beautiful lanterns on the water as well. Hopefully I can get out some this summer, been cooped up indoors for way too long at this point, and I'm starting to miss the fresh nippon breeze 😂. Hopefully spring comes somewhat early this year so I can see some cherry blossoms and drink some plum wine while barbecuing lol!

What a beautiful photo! I've seen a Japanese friendship garden in Portland I think it was but this one has a totally different atmosphere. It's really cool to see the different styles. I hadn't heard of West Lake before but I looked at some pictures of it and it looks like a beautiful place. I like how the architecture of the pavilions is very similar as well. I'm certainly a fan of all of the winter scenery I've gotten to see this year, but I feel like the cherry blossoms would certainly look amazing here. That or even the foliage in the autumn. I'd like to check this out when I get the chance. It looks like there are some interesting restaurants in the area as well so I can look forward to some tasty food!

Gifu Park Japan-China Friendship Garden Snow Scenery ❄️ In 1989, Gifu City and Hangzhou City, People's Republic of China, created a garden to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the friendship city partnership, and a gate with a design full of Chinese atmosphere, earthen walls, gardens, and a pond made to imitate West Lake, a famous place in Hangzhou City. This pond is a pond that can be enjoyed throughout the four seasons. 🌸 The cherry blossom season is famous, but the snowy scenery is also the best. When you come to Gifu, please take a walk in Gifu Park. 😊

Monet's pond was 🥺 beautiful. I want to go again!

Tried a new tsuyu again lol. A spicy flavor this time. It’s not as spicy as it looks actually, just the right level of spicy. The tsuyu was 赤から apparently from Nagoya. Goes great with udon too. Tasted really good

Couple Rock ✨ It's tasteful ^ ^

On the riverbed of the Fuji River This is a photo of me flying a kite with my 2-year-old son. It was windy and we lifted ♪ high

Annual Nabana no Sato Illumination ^ ^ It's beautiful and I never ✨ get tired of it.

Layered Hisaya Odori Park! Beautifully lit TV tower ^ ^ There was ✨ a new store.

I heard on the news that it was going to snow, so I took my camera for a walk in the morning. The rice fields and trees were dyed white and beautiful.

・ 🗾Web store Hoshino 2nd time SNS→Instagram @cksb_hoshino 、Twitter。 Kiyoyu Soy Sauce Hoshino's mail order shop in Nagano Prefecture. This is the first order since the collaboration with Tsukesoba Shonen in Nagano Prefecture. I bought it at @baseec, who often uses it this time. < soba noodles 2 meal set 1900 yen, shipping not included> The set includes 2 types of noodles, soup with menma, 2 types of char siu, and noodle salt. + Ingredients are kelp water kelp + boiled and dried, trefoil 😆 I like the smooth type of kelp water more than mush, so I love Rausu kelp without using gagome or root kelp 😍. For niboshi, choose Ibuki Iriko! Prepared by draining the water from the day before. The timing of boiling two types of noodles is difficult 💦 It's ^^ nice to be able to compare thin noodles and medium thick noodles. The umami of the chicken and the crisp soy sauce are also good! It has a good balance with fat. Menma, char siu, etc. are still the best 🙋 ♂️ Thank you for the delicious feast ^ ^

monologue Additional desserts 🍰 separate from the course * Soy milk gelato 🍨 and original blend ☕️ coffee affogard

monologue Special Lunch Course 🍽💖 * Grande Serres Tofu gateau chocolate and pear boiled in red wine, raspberry sauce

monologue Special Lunch Course 🍽💖 * Avant des Serres Soy milk gelato with 🍨 tangerine 🍊 sauce

Soba restaurant "Koyama" in Sekigahara City, Gifu Prefecture. It is 😊 a luxurious interior with a high ceiling ⠀ ⠀ Tempura soba black rice cooked rice set 1630 yen + large serving 300 yen⠀ ⠀ Tenzarunami 1630 yen tax included⠀ Soba knot, 2 shrimp, pumpkin, carrot, square bean, sweet potato, flower noodle, nori, kowabu, large leaf, lotus root, soba roll ⠀ Tempura is fluffy and has a light texture that almost melts in your mouth! !️ The soba knot is fragrant and the soba roll is crunchy and firm, the soba noodles are firm and have the 😆 best ❣️ smooth texture ⠀ I made it side by side, but I ran out 😢 of soba tempura was so delicious that I was impressed 😆 that it was so delicious that I couldn't get tired of it ❣️ ⠀ Soba Koyama Sekigahara store⠀ 0584-51-3030⠀ 1673-38 Nogami, Sekigahara-cho, Fuwa-gun, Gifu

monologue Special Lunch Course 🍽💖 *main Grilled taro with herb breadcrumbs, French toast and grilled seasonal vegetables

monologue Special Lunch Course 🍽💖 *Granite Black grape granita

・ 🗾 Lape Hydrangea SNS→ Instagram @hydrangea410 Twitter 🗾 Sakurai Chinese Soba SNS→Twitter IF YOU'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ROAD ULTIMATE! Rape hydrangea and Sakurai Chinese soba shop Kanagawa Prefecture luxury collaboration ✨ only on December 13th The collaboration between famous restaurants that were together during the training period is too 🎉 precious Open from 11 o'clock to 200 meals ramen + gateau chocolate, toppings for 100 meals each. Numbered tickets will be distributed from 7 o'clock. Up to 4 tickets can be issued per person only representatives are OK, and each ticket can be exchanged for 1000 yen. Refund later People gathered early in the morning, so it seems that numbered tickets were distributed from 6 o'clock! At 7 o'clock, there was an announcement that there were 40 cards left, and I was 💦 in a hurry. I left the house at 7:30, so I almost gave up. It takes about 50 minutes to go down. Arrived at 8:20, miraculously remained and sold 😳 out there I'm 😆 glad I didn't give up Please come back at 5 p.m.! I saw a lot of people from outside the prefecture. I returned at 5 p.m., but I was 🥶 about an hour late. Many people who didn't know about limited sales came 🥺 I arrived around ^^ 6:30 p.m. <Shimanto turkey and Lulu Rosso× Musou wheat temomi Chinese soba + homemade soy sauce gateau chocolate 2000 yen> As expected, the toppings were sold out at the end. A variety of rare ingredients that you don't usually eat! It looks simple, but the rich soup with full chicken flavor is irresistible 🤤. The hand-rubbed noodles had a chewy texture, and the more I ate them, the more they intertwined 🙆 ♂️ with the soup. The large-format char siu is also soft and excellent. I finished drinking and eating for the first time in a long time. Gateau chocolate is also delicious 😄 even after eating ramen. It's not 🎅 the quality you get at a ramen shop. Thank you for the delicious feast ^ ^ I couldn't be happier.

monologue Special Lunch Course 🍽💖 *Hot appetizer Grilled cauliflower with saffron, carrot leaf tempura

monologue Special Lunch Course 🍽💖 *soup Turnip cream soup, iridescent rice, lotus root mochi, white tamari jelly and soy milk bubbles

monologue Special Lunch Course 🍽💖 * Focaccia Soy milk yogurt yeast, black sesame bread

monologue Special Lunch Course 🍽💖 * Cold appetizer Salad of seasonal carrots, apples and fresh leaves, with carrot sauce and salt koji sauce

monologue Special Lunch Course 🍽💖 *Mouth Vegetable cabbage rolls, koji and mustard sauce

・ 🗾 Homemade noodles wakaba SNS→Twitter、Facebook <お店の情報> A shop 😆 opened independently by a person who trained at Osaka's famous store Gunsei Wakaba-san is close to Ueno Park, where Iga Ueno Castle is located! There are 4 ✨ parking lots at the end of the narrow road next to the store. There is also a city hall and there is no ^.^ problem with parking lots. It is a ninja town-like store, the store, and the 🎊 toilet. You can see the menu of the day on Twitter and Facebook! A style 🙆 ♂️ where meal tickets are purchased first in the store and lined up <Point> 1 Carefully selected menu. Tsukesoba will be 🤤 the main dish Tsukesoba + boiled dried soba or white water soba noodles! There are also cold-boiled dried soba noodles for the summer season. 2 A popular store with a long line. The line is amazing with no coverage! Since it is mainly tsukesoba noodles, the rotation is not 🥺 so good. Be afraid of word of mouth. 3 Excellent cost performance. Ramen 680 yen, tsukesoba 850 yen Corporate efforts are amazing 😳 Tsukesoba has 5 slices of char siu! Special serving of < soba noodles 1050 yen and increased char siu 200 yen ✖︎3> It's overwhelmingly beautiful from the looks of art 😆. There were about 30 slices of char siu and it was 🤣 amazing. The homemade noodles made with ice water are a masterpiece. 🙋 ♂️ Even if you eat it as it is, it has a firm texture and the wheat flavor aroma is the best! The rich seafood soup has a strong knotty texture and goes well 😊 with the crispy green onions. You can eat thinly sliced rare chasiu as it is, dip it in dipping soup, or put it on rice in various ways 🎉. Thank you for the delicious feast ^ ^

━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐟 Izu Kogen Beer Main Store 📍 Futo Station@Shizuoka 📝 Fisherman's pickled rice bowl set 💰2,380 yen excluding tax ━━━━━━━━━━━━━

━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥩 Nikutei Mabotan 📍 Kamimaetsu Station @ Aichi 📝 Japanese Black Beef Red and White Meat Box 💰10,000 yen tax included ━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Unaju of the famous restaurant "Charcoal grilled eel Shun" in Shizuoka Prefecture! Miraculously, I was able to make a reservation and visited, but the delicious eel is completely different! !! And impressed! The concept of eel has changed!

Mokuzu crab of "Minshuku Kagoya" in Kawazu Town, Kamo District, Shizuoka Prefecture

It is an autumn-limited sweet potato uiro from Sparrow Odori Sohonten in Sakae Ward, Nagoya City! 🍠 Everyone who was 🤤🍠 very delicious with sweet potatoes in it is also welcome!