Japan
Truly amazing local food – Okonomiyaki is a must try: Restaurant Okonomiyaki Nagata-ya (14. March 2020)
Hiroshima is an impressive city and you should definitely visit the Peace Memorial Park and the A Bomb Dome which both of kind you make you melancholic and give you an impression of what the Atomic bomb actually did. A remote one, a weak one, but at least a better one than when you just […]
Set breakfast option due to the Coronavirus: Garden Café @ Kobe Bay Sheraton Hotel & Towers (14. March 2020)
Given Coronovirus measures, there was also no buffet for breakfast but a set menu for breakfast which consisted of “soup, ham, bacon, sausage, hashed potatoes, locally grown vegetable salad, fruits, yogurt, scrambled eggs, bread, and tea” plus … … rice if you asked for it (which I did). All in all, the breakfast selection was […]
Outstanding service and decent udon noodles: Restaurant Gourmet Kineya (13. March 2020)
Given the ‘dinner’ at the Sheraton Club Lounge was not satisfactory, I decided to hit a spot somewhere in its vicinity and ended up in the “Gourmet Kineya” which – I found out later – seems to be a chain across Japan. Given arrival was 10 minutes before their last order (7:30pm), I had to […]
A relatively disappointing lounge experience: Sheraton Club Lounge @ Kobe Bay Sheraton Hotel & Towers (13. March 2020)
Although the impacts of the Coronavirus are clearly visible in the Japanese society, a large part of it still works according to normal procedures with the exception that some sights are closed for visitors and clear announcements over public loudspeakers that you should wash your hands frequently. The Kobe Bay Sheraton Hotel & Towers decided […]
A delicious but very expensive experience – Kobe beef in Kobe: Restaurant Mouriya Honten (13. March 2020)
If you go to Kobe, you definitely have to try the Kobe Beef, so it was time to do exactly that shortly after the arrival in the city. The Mouriya Honten is a place famous for its Kobe beef and offers a good selection of meat. It was time to try “Kobe Beef Fillet (130gr, […]
Traditional Japanese breakfast is not really my thing: Ekoin Temple (13. March 2020)
I was a bit skeptical about the breakfast as it contained quite a bit of things which I was not able to identify respectively which do not really fit into a breakfast in my personal opinion. But – considering the rice which you get with it – you have enough differently tasting things which make […]
A truly traditional Japanese temple dinner experience: Ekoin Temple (12. March 2020)
When you visit Koya-san, I can definitely recommend you to stay in a temple run by monks (there are many up there) like the Ekoin Temple. The whole concept is that you basically stay in a way Japanese people (and monks especially) live(d). So, you cannot wear outdoor footwear inside, you are sleeping in one […]
When Google Translate helps you to order food: Restaurant Matsumuro (本マグロと季節料理 魚菜まつむろ) (11. March 2020)
Finding a restaurant which offers something in English isn’t easy in Nara. We tried about five places and all of them basically made it clear to us that we weren’t really welcome if we didn’t speak Japanese – which was done in a very polite manner just showing us the hand-written menu in Japanese (which […]
