「さっぽろ雪まつり」は毎年2月上旬に開催される雪と氷の祭典です。
2023年に開催される「第73回さっぽろ雪まつり」は札幌市制100周年記念となっており、2023年2月4日（土）～2月11日（土）の日程で開催されます。

例年「大通会場」「すすきの会場」「つどーむ会場」の札幌市内の3会場で開催されますが2023年は「つどーむ会場」の開催は見送りとなりました。

さっぽろ雪まつりの歴史は古く、1950年に地元の中・高校生が6つの雪像を大通公園に展示したことから始まり、その後徐々に参加者が増え、今では約200万人が訪れる札幌を代表するイベントとなりました。

新型コロナウイルス拡大防止の為、第71回の2021年・第72回の2022年度は1950年にさっぽろ雪まつりが開始されて以来、初の中止となりオンライン形式での開催となりました。
2023年度は3年ぶりの開催となります。

皆様に各会場ごとの見どころ情報を紹介します。

【大通会場】
大通り会場1丁目には野外スケートリンクが作られ、期間中は様々なイベントも催されます。
貸し靴もあるので気軽に立ち寄ることができますよ。
利用料金（60分入れ替え制）：一般大人1,000円、子供（小学生以下）500円

「3丁目 HTB PARK AIR広場」では、高さ24メートル、全長65メートルの巨大ジャンプ台で、日本トップレベルの選手によるスノーボードやフリースタイルスキーを観覧することができます。
「4丁目 STV広場」、「5丁目 道新 雪の広場」「7丁目 HBCポーランド広場」「8丁目 雪のHTB広場」「9丁目 市民の広場」では約10メートルの大雪像が建てられ、プロジェクションマッピングによる雪と映像のショーも楽しめます。
「6丁目 市民の広場」には北海道の人気グルメが集結する「北海道食の広場」が開催され、ラーメン、海鮮料理、肉料理などの屋台が並び、魅力ある北海道の食を満喫できます。

【すすきの会場】
すすきの会場は「氷を楽しむ」のテーマで開催され、いくつもの幻想的な氷像が並びます。
日が暮れるとライトアップもされるので、写真スポットとしても楽しむことができます。

レンブラントスタイル札幌から「さっぽろ雪まつり」が開催される「大通会場」へのアクセスは徒歩15分となっております。
3年ぶりに開催される「さっぽろ雪まつり」を是非皆さまお楽しみください。

レンブラントスタイル札幌の宿泊予約はプロフィール欄に記載されている公式ホームページよりご確認いただけますようお願いいたします。

■レンブラントスタイル札幌情報■
【住所】〒064-0807 北海道札幌市中央区南7条西5丁目
【電話番号】011-522-5746

焼肉
Yakiniku

焼肉 銀座コバウ＠東京都中央区銀座
Yakiniku Ginza Cobau＠Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

焼肉 銀座コバウ
03-5568-5510
東京都中央区銀座6-6-5 HULIC＆New GINZA NAMIKI6 5F
Yakiniku Ginza Kobau
+81 3-5568-5510
5F HULIC&NEW GINZA NAMIKI6 6-6-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

沖縄県南風原町の公式アカウント「HAEBARU/南風原町観光」さんの投稿
「【和牛炙り寿司】と【馬刺し】の自動販売機」をご紹介！

最近話題の変わり種自販機。
美味しいお肉を自販機で購入できるなんてとても便利ですね！

南風原町（はえばる）新川にあります、環境の杜ふれあいの施設内に【和牛炙り寿司】と【馬刺し】の自動販売機がございます。
冷凍でのお渡しになるので、お家まで冷たい状態で持ち運べるのがいいですね。

南風原町（はえばる）にございます、自動販売機を紹介します。
美ら玉養鶏場兼城店入り口にある、たまごの自動販売機(^o^)
自社養鶏場で育てた鶏の卵は黄身の色が濃く新鮮です☆そしてその卵を使ったスイーツもイチオシ！私のイチオシはキャラメルパウンドケーキ！こちらの自販機からご購入できます☆☆

Ate lunch at Ueno Station today. I found a soba restaurant that looked good so I decided to eat there. It tasted delicious and the tempura was cooked perfectly!

寿司
Sushi

恵比寿 鮨 ふじまさ＠東京都渋谷区恵比寿南
Ebisu Sushi Fujimasa@Minamiebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

恵比寿 鮨 ふじまさ
03-6303-0298
東京都渋谷区恵比寿南1-18-12 竜王ビルⅡ 2F
Ebisu Sushi Fujimasa
+81 3-6303-0298
Ryuo2 Bldg. 2F, 1-18-12 Minamiebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

焼き鳥
Yakitori

鍈輝＠東京都渋谷区恵比寿
Eiki@Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

鍈輝
03-5422-8611
東京都渋谷区恵比寿2-10-5 ROZIS 1F
Eiki
+81 3-5422-8611
ROZIS 1F, 2-10-5 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

スペイン料理
Spanish Cuisine

ジーナジーナ＠東京都港区西麻布
GINAGINA＠Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

ジーナジーナ
03-3486-7222
東京都港区西麻布2-26-20 ドゥーエ西麻布Ⅱ B1F
GINAGINA
+81 3-3486-7222
B1F Doue Nishiazabu II, 2-26-20 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

静岡カントリー浜岡コース＆ホテルに行ってきました。
まずは1枚目、前菜
白いのは塩でできているそうです。
綺麗すぎ…

[Englsih／日本語]
Cafe Kojika is a 10-minute walk from Hachioji Station. The interior of Cafe Kojika is decorated in the 1970s, so you can enjoy your meal in an old Japanese house. The prices are all one coin and even better, they were very tasty ?My top recommendation is the cream soda. You can have your favorite color juice made. There are many international students who would like to do a homestay. However, due to the corona, they don't have a chance to do a homestay, so I recommend this kind of old house café to such students.
八王子駅から徒歩10分の「カフェ小鹿」。カフェ小鹿の中は1970年代のインテリアになっているので、古い日本の家の中で食事を楽しむことができます。値段もワンコインのものが多く、さらにとてもおいしかったです?一番のおすすめはクリームソーダです。自分の好きな色のジュースを作ってもらえます。留学生でホームステイをしてみたいという学生はとても多いです。しかし、コロナの関係でホームステイをする機会がないので、そんな学生にはこのような古民家カフェをおすすめしています。

水戸市姫子町にある元祖スタミナラーメン。
味は濃いめでレバーが大きくて食べ応えがあります！
しかもそのレバーが美味しくて頬っ辺が落ちちゃいます?

八王子ラーメンは東京都八王子市の自慢の人気のご当地ラーメンです。
醤油ベースのあっさりの優しい味のラーメンで、刻み玉ねぎを具として使用しておりスープの表面に脂が浮いています。
シンプルな作りとなっていますが、多くのメディアにも取り上げられており、地元八王子の方々にはもちろんの事、遠方のファンも多い、東京のご当地ラーメンとなっています！

八王子ラーメンの歴史は古く、今から60年以上前の昭和34年（1959年）に北野駅前で惣菜屋を営んでいたあるお店が区画整理による移転で子安町に引っ越すことになった際に駅から離れてしまうため惣菜屋は難しいと考え「ラーメン店」を始めることにしました。

当時はラーメン店といえば出前をする中華料理店が主流だったため、ラーメン専門で、しかも店内売りのみで生計を立てようとしたその店は、何か特徴を出そうと試行錯誤をしていました。

そんなとき、偶然、北海道旅行で「きざみ玉ねぎ」が入ったラーメン屋に出会いました。
しかし、北海道で食べたそのラーメンは食感は良かったものの、玉ねぎの辛味が抜け切らず、何とか玉ねぎの食感を損なわずに辛味を抜いたスープが作れないかと、工夫を重ねた結果、考えついたのが油です。
油は玉ねぎの辛味を抑え、甘味を引き立ててくれ、今の八王子ラーメンの原型が生まれました。

日立高鈴ゴルフクラブのステーキ重
追加料金かかるけどその分美味しい！

フランス料理
French

ラ ペ@東京都中央区日本橋室町
La paix@Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

ラ ペ
050-3196-2390
東京都中央区日本橋室町1-9-4 井上第3ビル B1F
La paix
+81 50-3196-2390
B1F Inoue No.3 Building, 1-9-4 Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

築地のお寿司屋さんのメニュー
達筆?

高尾山の頂上で食べたとろろ蕎麦
疲れた体にしみました?

寿司
Sushi

冨所＠東京都港区新橋
Tomidokoro@Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

冨所
03-6876-0646
東京都港区新橋6-13-3 1F
Tomidokoro
+81 3-6876-0646
1F, 6-13-3 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

長野旅行

広い敷地の牧場で牛さんに感謝しながらソフトクリームいただきました?
写真はコーヒー味のソフトクリームです?

ちょっと遠いけど避暑地なので夏には毎年お世話になってます♡

Some photos of our trip to Sawara in Chiba Prefecture over the 3 day weekend a couple weeks back.

On the way to Sawara we stopped at Chiba Station and had lunch at a place called Common Café. I order a burger not expecting a lot, but it was the best burger I've had in a long time actually.

We arrived a bit late in Sawara and were kind of tired so we decided to just go to the hotel, shower and relax for a bit and then have dinner.
We had a reservation at a French restaurant called Mougins and it ended up being a really great experience.

After eating dinner we were headed back to the hotel and we heard some hayashi and cheering in the distance and we decided to check out what was happening. We found a dashi parading through the streets and they were stopping at different places to pick up alcohol lol. Apparently they'd been doing it every Sunday, I think since corona started.
It was pretty cool to see though.

The next day we went to check out the Sawara Historical District and after reaching our destination we decided to take a break at a cafe. We ordered a shaved ice and some sort of soda. They were both really delicious, especially the shaved ice. It was some sort of flavor using tea from Kyoto and milk. I forget what it was called exactly though.

We also stopped by the former residence of Inoh Tadataka, the famous Japanese cartographer.
It was quite interesting seeing where he lived.
After visiting his residence, we to the nearby museum and learned about his life and everything he did.

I was pretty blown away by how incredible he actually was. I was a bit surprised that I hadn't learned much about him when I was studying the history of Japan, but after visiting the museum I'm convinced he was truly a genius.

Unfortunately I couldn’t take pictures inside of the museum, but seeing all of the tools that he used to draw maps and learning how they worked was really interesting.
On top of that, the maps he drew were unbelievably accurate.
I think it mentioned somewhere that his maps were used until the 1900's, despite being drawn several hundred years prior.
His cartography was only one of the endeavors he pursued as well. There were also some documents that explained how he helped his town get through the famine, and also documents detailing how he dealt with local lords imposing taxes on his town.

Besides the museum, we also took a boat ride through the canal that ran through the historical district.
The canal was quite nice, and you could see the historical buildings that lined the sides of it while going through it.
We had to lower the cover on the boat for several bridges as the water level was quite high due to the recent rains, but that just made the experience even more memorable.

The tour guide on the boat mentioned how when the canal was used back in the Edo period, it was incredibly busy and boats would have been bumping into each other constantly while passing through.

During the boat ride through the canal I noticed some interesting statues on various lanterns and decided to check them out. They all turned out to be interesting and unique.

We ended our trip by having a late lunch near the historical district.
We had planned to take a train back to Tokyo but missed it by a few minutes.
Fortunately, a bus arrived at the perfect time and so we rode that back to Tokyo. It was much better than the crowded trains.

Overall it was a really good day-trip style excursion and I definitely recommend it!
Managed to find 2 poke lids too!

以前食べた揚州商人のネギラーメン(๑´ڡ`๑)

[English／日本語]
Takohachiya" is a grill shop. It is located alongside the Hachioji Central Library, about 6 minutes from the school. This time I ate not takoyaki but "takosen". Takosen" are takoyaki sandwiched between octopus crackers, and are famous as a snack for children in Osaka. There are many takoyaki shops in Tokyo, but this was the first time I saw takosen being sold. The fluffy takoyaki sandwiched between crispy rice crackers was very tasty ?Bangladeshi students do not eat seafood such as octopus and squid. Please be careful when making recommendations to foreigners.
焼き屋「たこ八や」。八王子中央図書館の並びで、学校からは6分くらいです。今回食べたのはたこ焼きではなく「たこせん」です。「たこせん」はたこのせんべいにたこ焼きを挟んだもので、大阪の子どものおやつとして有名です。東京にもたくさんたこ焼き屋さんはありますが、たこせんが売られているのを見たのは初めてでした。ぱりぱりのおせんべいにふわふわのたこ焼きが挟まれていて、とってもおいしかったです?バングラデシュの学生はタコやイカなどの海鮮は食べないそうです。外国人におすすめをする際には気を付けてくださいね。

淡路島の南淡路に来ました。
全国ご同地パーガーグランプリで、1位を取った事のあるお店です。

同じ場所から鳴門大橋が綺麗に見えました。

Went to Takadanobaba over the weekend and decided to go to this ramen restaurant called "Ore no Sora" (俺の空).

There was a bit of a wait to get into the restaurant but after about 10-15 mins we finally got in and were able to order. They seemed to be taken measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and had spaces open between seats and only half the seats were filled.

I don't remember the name of the ramen that I ordered but they all seemed to be quite similar. Usually I would order a spicy ramen, but this one you had to ask for the spicy paste separately (it's free) so I just decided to try it without it.
The restaurant offers free large servings and so I did that as I was quite hungry.
The noodles were thinner than those of most ramen restaurants I go to, and I prefer thinner noodles so it was nice.
The bowl itself was really full of noodles. It didn't look like it was that much food at first, but it turned out to be a lot. We ordered a small rice dish covered with pork (no photo) to share and while we did finish eating it, we were incredibly full afterwards.

Personally it's not the flavor of ramen I would normally choose as it was almost like a fish and tonkotsu base, but even still it was quite good. I think if you like fish base ramen you'd really like this ramen.

Even though it's not the flavor I really like, I would still definitely recommend this restaurant as the food itself was of good quality. Definitely check it out if you're by Takadanobaba Station or just looking for some noodles

南風原町（はえばる）にあります、金門飯店の麻婆ヘチマを紹介します。
ナスの代わりに南風原町特産のヘチマを使用した麻婆ヘチマは絶品☆
店内には中国を感じられる置物や飾り付けがたくさん☆
ほかにも中華料理がたくさんございますので、食べにイッチャイナ☆☆

Visited Shibamata for the first time over the weekend.

I'd been meaning to go for a while because it seemed like an interesting place to visit in Tokyo, but I just hadn't had the chance until now.

It was a really nice place and I was surprised at how few people were there.
There was a ton of shops lined up along the main street and the wooden buildings gave it a really nice atmosphere.

I haven't seen Otoko wa Tsurai yo, but there were statues and posters of Tora-san everywhere, even inside shops and stuff. I guess I'll have to watch it some time when I have the chance.

We ended up eating lunch at one of the restaurants along the main road and they had some Tora Miso Ramen so we decided to try it. It was pretty good and had a decent amount of vegetables in it as well, so moderately healthy for ramen I suppose. We also got some dessert at a cafe afterwards and she got some dango while I ordered an ice cream float.

We also went to the nearby temple Shibamata Taishakuten (柴又帝釈天), or Daikyoji Temple and walked around the main temple grounds and also bought tickets to see the garden and the architecture inside the temple. The garden was really pretty and the walkway around it was quite nice to walk on.

I really enjoyed viewing the inside of the temple as there was a ton of hand-carved panels depicting different scenes. There were descriptions below each of the panels that described them as well, and they were interesting to read.

It seemed like they were all carved by different people but they were all highly skilled.

When we were leaving we found a nice little shows style candy shop and we bought some snacks and played a round of pinball on one of the pinball machines inside the shop. Haven’t played pinball since I was a kid, was pretty nostalgic.

If you're in Tokyo I definitely recommend giving this place a visit on the weekend.

Visited Machiya again. I'm not sure why but I seem to really like the atmosphere there. I think the streetcar passing through gives it a different feel than other places.

Anyways, I decided to grab some lunch and found this nice restaurant called Tokyo Local Base. I got this omurice and wow, it was probably the best omurice I've ever had. The sauce tasted really good and the egg was perfectly cooked.

I wish I would have taken a photo of the inside of the restaurant because it was quite relaxing and, just like Machiya, had a really nice atmosphere. It was a bit crowded when I came, but I managed to enter the restaurant right when the lunch rush was starting to die down and so there wasn't many people by the time I got my meal. Definitely recommend checking it out if you're looking to grab a bite in the area.

夏野菜?
お野菜もハンバーグもあつあつで美味しかったです(๑´ڡ`๑)

Was back in Kanda today for the first time in a while, but I decided to go back to the same izakaya I visited a few months ago. The food is really great and again it wasn't very crowded since I went a bit early. If you're in the Kanda area I recommend checking it out. Kakuuchi Inagaki (角打 いながき). They offer extra helpings of rice for free and also free refills of miso soup!

クリームソーダで有名な旅する喫茶のクリームソーダ?
お店の雰囲気もレトロで良かったです?