Tag: japan

  • Ando Museum by Tadao Ando on Naoshima

    Ando Museum by Tadao Ando on Naoshima

    Ando Museum was our first stop on this day trip to the island of Naoshima 直島. See the first post in this series for more about this wonderful Japanese island. The museum is located in Honmura, a charmingly tiny town where food options were very limited. We were lucky to find Ishii Shouten 石井商店 that

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  • Art & Architecture on Naoshima 直島, Japan

    Art & Architecture on Naoshima 直島, Japan

    Chris spent a full day on Naoshima 直島 to see its contemporary art installations and museums. This is the first of a series of posts on this trip. Naoshima Naoshima is a small island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea 瀬戸内海. The Seto Inland Sea lies between three of the four main islands of Japan (Honshu,

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  • Tokyo Food Diary part 5: snacks

    Tokyo Food Diary part 5: snacks

    The earlier posts in this series are all about Japanese convenience/comfort foods that we have been eating some exported versions of them outside Japan (Part 1 is about noodles, part 2 about izakaya, part 3 is about grilled foods as well as tonkatsu and curry, and part 4 is about wagashi. Japanese snacks is an entire world

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  • Tokyo Food Diary: wagashi 和菓子

    Tokyo Food Diary: wagashi 和菓子

    The first three posts of the series are all about sampling the Japanese comfort/convenience food that we have been eating outside Japan (Part 1 is about noodles, Part 2 about izakaya, and in Part 3 we ate grilled foods as well as tonkatsu and curry). This post is about sweets – the traditional wagashi 和菓子. The specialist

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