Winter valley Arashiyama in the back of the evening The Milky Way is already on earth Photo taken in Arashiyama, 31/12/2018 Caption by Takaoka san

This is the snowy scenery when I went to Kamikawa Town in Hyogo Prefecture. I filmed the moment my husband filmed me. It is one of my favorite photos of winter.

Todaiji Temple is so awesome. I remember the first time I went there. I had a professor in college (awesome guy btw) who told the class about his trip there when he was doing research and he told us how massive the temple was. He showed us a picture and pointed out how the people looked like ants in front of the temple. I believed him that it was large of course but I figured maybe it was just the photo's perspective making it look larger. Oh boy, was I in for a treat when I actually got to the temple. It was seriously MASSIVE and the incense burner that he mentioned was out front as well so it was cool that I got to experience all of the things that he was able to experience in the past. I guess that's one thing that makes historical places like this so extraordinary- being able to connect with the past without actually being there. I really loved all the small models there as well lol! I'll certainly never forget my trip to Todaiji and I'd love to visit Nara again when I get the chance.

Glossy day In Kyoto

This photo captures the essence of Kyoto so well in my opinion. Cherry blossoms and a yakatabune. It's so simple and yet so elegant at the same time. I like how the boat is just slightly obscured by the cherry blossoms and you can feel how the wood on the roof of the boat has aged just by looking at it. Kyoto has so many beautiful sights to see and experiences to try. I'm looking forward to one of these boat rides the next time I go, and I'm also planning on visiting a kawadoko because I've eaten by a river before so I know how refreshing it is, but I've never eaten OVER a river before (inside a boat maybe but this is different) so I'm looking forward to a new experience. Going to have to visit all the temples and shrines I didn't have the chance to visit before as well.

Just beautiful. There's so much happening in this photo when you really look at it. The paper lantern is really the cherry on the cake for me in this one. I read an article a little while ago about the funaya in Ine and thought it was really interesting. It's awesome getting to see fireworks happening there as well, it's like I've discovered a new side of the area that I didn't know about before. I really enjoy fireworks over water too, and there's plenty of great fireworks festivals in Japan that do just that. I was already looking forward to being able to see the boathouses in Ine one day but now I'm looking forward to it even more. Going to line it up with the Ine Fireworks Festival if I can. The reflection of the fireworks on the water looks really awesome as well.

We were blessed with good weather and were able to enjoy the beautiful snowy scenery. It was a happy moment to be enveloped in 360 degrees and frost! !️

I was ? able to see a superb scenery that made me feel tired from the hard climbing. The blue sky and frost go perfectly together! !️

This is a photo of a snowy day in "Naramachi" in Nara City, Nara Prefecture. Nara City does not have much snow, and it has snowed for the first time in several years, and the cityscape that I have loved from the beginning has become even more attractive due to the snowy scenery.

Man the autumn colors sure were beautiful this year. Hopefully they're just as nice this year. I have no doubt in my mind that they will be. It's been a while since I went to Nara, but I always love watching the videos of deer chasing people around for crackers ? I've yet to go to Hasedera Temple though, it seems like it's not as well known as some of the other ones. Not sure why though, as it looks absolutely beautiful with all the natural scenery surrounding it. The pagoda looks really cool as well. I'm a huge fan of pagodas for some reason though lol. The 3rd picture of the temple kind of makes it look like the common photo you see of Kiyomizudera, but mirrored on the left side instead of the right. Just an interesting observation I had.

As always Japan has amazing desserts. Went and dug up some old posts and found a lot of awesome photos. This one just kind of stuck out the most. I've personally never tried mochi and ice cream together but now that I think about it it actually sounds like it could be a pretty good combination. I'm curious as to what the sauce is as well. I've had different types of dango with different types of sauce before but this seems like a totally different experience. I'm considering getting some the next time I go shopping so I can try this. I'm trying to imagine a type of ice cream filled dango or dango filled ice cream but idk how well it would work if the dango are warm ?. Either way it sounds really good and I don't think I've ever had a bad dessert in Japan so I'd love to try this out if I can manage a trip to Kyoto. When I went to Kyoto in the past I was only in Kawaramachi for a really short amount of time so I'd really like to explore it more next time!

It was the first sunrise of 2021 when I went to see it on a hill near my home. This is going to be a good year.

Man this is so cool! Leave it to Kyoto to have not only tons of amazing temples and shrines, but also some historic boat houses! Looking at this just gets me raring to go fishing lol. It's been so long since I've been. It'd probably be a good idea to get my own tackle and go for a fishing trip. I could even try making my own sushi although idk how great it would taste ?The second picture in the article makes it look like paradise too. I'd love to visit the hot spring as well. I have a public bath near my place but I haven't been able to get out to an actual hot spring lately. Ine looks like a great place though, really rustic and detached from the every day hustle and bustle of the city. Just one more thing to add to my bucket list when I visit Kyoto again!

monologue Special Lunch Course ?? * Avant des Serres Soy milk gelato with ? tangerine ? sauce

Namba Osaka Takashimaya 7F "Namba Dining Maison" "Bibiu Namba Store". It is a long-established store that originated in Sakai and has been around for more than 200 years. ⠀ Luxurious soup stock made with sōtai bonito flakes, honkōflakes and Rishiri kelp ⠀ grilled conger eel, shrimp, mochi, shiitake, carrots, shrimp potatoes, yuba, chicken thighs, cancer, three-leaf, Chinese cabbage, hirosu, silk pods, ⠀ daikon, udon noodles. ⠀ You can choose live shrimp or boiled shrimp. In winter, it has a clam. ⠀ There are four types of condiments: onion, grated maple, ginger, and lemon. ⠀ ⠀ Bibiu Namba Namba Dining Maison 7F⠀ 5-1-18 Namba, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 11:00～23:00(L.O.21:30) ⠀ 06-6633-2871⠀

Awaji Island "HELLOKITTY SHOWBOX" is a new theater restaurant where you can enjoy a meal while enjoying a show in the hotel. The food is vegan food, so it's healthy and great for dieters. ⠀ ⠀ Ichi no Ju ⠀ Seasonal rice (five-grain rice)⠀ Tofu hamburger steak (soy meat, tofu)⠀ Mapo Tofu (Soybean Meat)⠀ Fried white fish (tofu, lotus root, raw okara)⠀ Zucchini rice ⠀ Vegan fish fragrant stir-fried ⠀ ⠀ Ninoju⠀ Grilled eel (natural potato, lotus root, nori seaweed)⠀ Beef stew (soybean meat, konjac)⠀ Chicken nuggets (Koya tofu)⠀ ⠀ Gluten-free desserts⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ◆Lunch (11:00-13:00)⠀ Weekdays Advance reservation: Adult 4,640 yen, Child 2,320 yen ⠀ Same day: Adult 5,440 yen, Child 2,720 yen ⠀ Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays Advance reservations: Adults 5,800 yen, Children 2,900 yen ⠀ On the day: Adults 6,800 yen, Children 3,400 yen ⠀ ⠀ In-house walk gallery and vegan weight + vegan dessert buffet, ⠀ Show (Theater Show, Performance Show, ⠀ Hello Kitty Greeting Show) with handshake ticket⠀ ⠀ ◆Cafe (14:00-17:00)⠀ Adult 2,500 yen, Child 1,250 yen⠀ Photo handshake ticket with Hello Kitty 2,980 yen, Child 1,490 yen⠀ ⠀ Walk Gallery, Fruit & Vegan Sweets Buffet&⠀ Vegan Drink Bar + Vegan Cake Wagon, ⠀ Theater Show Hello Kitty Greeting Show⠀ ⠀ ◆Dinner (Saturday 18:00-20:00)⠀ Advance reservation Adult 5,800 yen, Child 2,900 yen ⠀ Adults 6,800 yen, Children 3,400 yen⠀ ⠀ HELLOKITTYSHOWBOX⠀ Hyogo-ken Awaji-shi Nojima Hirabayashi 177-5⠀ Kobe-Awaji Naruto Expressway Awaji I.C. 10 minutes from ⠀ Free shuttle bus from express bus stop "Awaji IC"⠀ Get off at "HELLO KITTY SHOWBOX" and walk 3 minutes ⠀ From the high-speed ferry Awaji Genoa Line "Iwaya Port"⠀ Get off at the free shuttle bus "HELLO KITTY SHOWBOX" and walk 3 minutes ⠀ Regular holiday: Wednesday ⠀ 0799-70-9022⠀

You can enjoy homemade noodles in Osaka Tenma. ? The noodles are hand-made ❣️ slightly flat thin noodles at the restaurant, chewy and slippery, and the soup is ❣️ creamy and rich, but light. Chicken fat is extremely hot (laughs) Crispy and sweet menma #Delicious ? ⠀ ⠀ Noodle element⠀ 06-6351-8451⠀ Osaka-fu Osaka-shi Kita-ku Tenjinbashi 5-2-16 ⠀

Steak course of Shinsaibashi "Kyofu Teppan Hasekawa". All the dishes using fresh ingredients on domestic vegetables look beautiful and ❣️ can be enjoyed ? by the eyes ⠀ ⠀ Genji Course (15000 yen)⠀ Amuse⠀ Roast beef, cream cheese tofu, pickled eel nanban⠀ Hors d'oeuvres⠀ Matsusaka beef and vegetables steamed cellophane⠀ Hasekawa Salad⠀ Salt kelp, extra virgin oil, vinegar Seasonal soup⠀ New onion soup from Awaji⠀ Omar shrimp It is served with Kyoto-style tartar sauce with Aoshiba pickles, myoga and Nara pickles. The slightly elastic plump lobster ❣️ best Nara pickled tartar is also very horse. ❣️ Carefully selected Japanese black beef Kobe beef Chateaubriand & Matsusaka beef loin It is served with truffle salt, crystal salt, garlic ginger combined salt, and raw mountain aoi. ⠀ Kobe beef Chateaubriand is soft and melts in your mouth. Meat juice is overflowing ? in my mouth. Yaki-shabu or sukiyaki High-quality fat is elegant and easy ? to eat. Rice (garlic rice or ochazuke) Garlic rice is full of jako. The fried rice with plenty of air was ❣️ delicious to growl. Dessert⠀ Matcha brown panna cotta⠀ ⠀ Other items we received Kirin Braumeister (700 yen)⠀ Asahi Super Dry (750 yen)⠀ Hasekawa Original Junmai Ginjo (1800 yen) Berry A grape juice 100% (900 yen) ⠀ Kyofu Teppan Hasekawa 1-16-20 Higashi Shinsaibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka Galleria Accabil 3F⠀ Osaka Municipal Subway Midosuji Line Shinsaibashi Station 5 minutes walk from Exit 6 After the declaration of a state of emergency, the hours will be shortened for the time being 17:00~20:00, takeout 13:00~20:00 06-6241-3013

Osaka Jokitazume A soba restaurant right from the station "Happy with soba and chili oil" is a popular restaurant ❣️ that requires a line ⠀ ⠀ Meat soba noodles (750 yen)⠀ Fox (100 yen)⠀ ⠀ The soba noodles are large, and the raw egg-free ❣️ extra-thick soba noodles are slightly elastic and have the smallest ❣️ flavor, so I added two ❣️ extravagantly and plenty of tenkasu. Finally, it was ? delicious to eat the ❣️ whole juice with soba noodles ⠀ ⠀ I was happy with soba noodles and chili oil. ⠀ 06-4792-8788⠀ Osaka-fu Osaka-shi Miyakojima-ku Katamachi 1-8-15 ⠀

The French restaurant "Dan Luciel" near Osaka Jokitazume Station is a popular restaurant that exceeds Tabelog 3.7. ⠀ There are two types of lunch, 1,100 yen ❣️ with soup, bread, and sorbet, and only 10 reasonable table seats, and the chef is the only one who manages it. There are two kinds of bread and stomach bread ⠀ ❣️ ⠀ Dan Luciel⠀ 06-6881-5509⠀ Osaka-fu Osaka-shi Miyakojima-ku Katamachi 1-7-19 Miyakojima Frères Building 102⠀

Osaka Minoh's restaurant "Minocharyo" is a private room where you can ❣️ immerse yourself in a very elegant mood Omakase Kaiseki meal Rikyu no zen (8000 yen tax and service charge not included), 2 cups of bamboo sake (1,800 yen), mineral water (200 yen) ⠀ The Japan sake in a handmade bamboo tube is cold and delicious. ⠀ ⠀ Aperitif plum wine⠀ Pre-serving (anko liver, truffle, raw sea urchin, white onion, honshimeji)⠀ It is served in a yuzu kettle. It has no odor and is like foie gras. Good seasoning up to white onions #Geki uma ❣️ ⠀ Bowl (matsutake mushrooms and clams)⠀ #Matsutake It was ? a luxurious spoof with half a body and a large clam. ⠀ Mukatsuke (Yokowa, Aji, Kue)⠀ ❣️ The chewy radish was sweet and delicious. ⠀ ⠀ Hachisun (wakasagi nanbanzuke, yamato mana, raw sea urchin, hishi nuts, pearl bamboo shoots, moroko boiled in honeydew, flower beans, kinukatsugi, conger eel and abalone liver, sweet potato boiled in lemon) ⠀ There were a lot of them, but all of them were irresistible to my stomach and I was able to eat them smoothly. Each one is really delicious ❣️⠀ ⠀ Grilled food (Fushimi chili, matsutake mushroom, sazae)⠀ Seven rings of binchotan charcoal appeared ❣️, and the owner can grill charcoal grill. The Fushimi chili pepper was a little sweet and spicy, and the red ones were rarely found in Osaka, and ❣️ the matsutake mushrooms were also half of it. I didn't really like the sazaki, but it was very soft and intense. The owner of the trowel is friendly and funny ? ⠀ ⠀ Fried food (Shikata bamboo, Kumoko (tara no shirako), ginnan, mukago, kabosu)⠀ Shirako's tempura is very creamy♪ and full of moisture and the bamboo is also very good! !️ ⠀ ⠀ Vinegar thing (snow gani)⠀ I had ❣️ my first crab of the year ⠀ ♪ ⠀ Rice, miso soup, flavor (chestnut rice)⠀ Plump cooked rice and slightly hard chestnuts are the best! I ❣️ ate all the rice in the clay pot ⠀ ⠀ Water (blueberries, persimmons, melons, golden kiwi) ⠀ Mino Tea Dormitory ⠀ 072-729-0051⠀ Osaka-fu Minoh-shi Ishimaru 2-8-3 ⠀

Located in Shiga Prefecture, there is an all-you-can-eat sukiyaki restaurant [Uomatsu] with Omi beef and matsutake mushrooms. Sukiyaki, which represents Shiga Prefecture and uses Omi beef and high-grade mushroom matsutake mushrooms luxuriously, has a taste that can only be eaten here. Please try the fatty meat that melts on your tongue and the fragrant matsutake sukiyaki. Location: Koka-cho or Shigaraki-cho, Shiga Price: All-you-can-eat 7500 yen

Kyoto City Spring Valley Brewery. Compare craft beers. A set with snacks to match each beer. A shop remodeled from a townhouse. The old joinery and garden are nice.

Soba, Tempura Mochibari House

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Ise shrimp sashimi at Nakanagon.

Zoni at Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine

Egg bowl, warm soba noodles, tempura at Misui