Today started with an early dash to the station to catch the 8:39 Shinkansen to Hiroshima. We had breakfast at the station–seriously, there’s good restaurants at train stations here–and then got on the train. Continued under the cut: food report and a quintessential Japanese okonomiyaki experience!
Month: December 2014
A couple of photos from the Osaka Aquarium
Only a couple of photos because it’s a pain to edit photos on the iPad. I’ll wait til we get back to post more. The Kaiyukan Aquarium is a five-story aquarium that features animals and habitats from around the Ring of Fire, the tectonically active zone that circles the Pacific Ocean. It’s five stories tall,…
Ahem
Toby would like you guys who like green tea Kit Kats to know that after taste testing you can keep your green tea Kit Kats as long as he gets all the orange Kit Kats. Sent from my TRS-80
Note to self
Sitting on the train in the Okayama station looking at the kanji on the station sign. The kanji for ‘oka’ looks like a man hanging from gravity boots in a doorway. (I already knew ‘yama’–it looks like a mountain and means ‘mountain’.) Sent from my TRS-80
Waiting on the Shinkansen to Hiroshima
Pic below the cut, as I can’t resize it.
Guess the Amenity
And now for today’s episode of What The Hell Is This Thing? Version: Guess the Amenity. (Facebook users: the vast majority of these posts are longer than appear here. You should always click on the picture, even if there’s no indication there’s something there!)
The first ramen of the trip!
Ostensibly the entire reason for this trip is ramen. A year ago, we were watching the show The Mind of a Chef, the first season of which featured David Chang, who had many formative experiences with ramen, and who kept coming back to ramen. After yet another episode that mentioned ramen, Toby turned to me…
Just for you, Rachel from California!
(Hiding behind More tag to increase suspense)
Nice to see some things don’t change
Watching the dawn in Osaka, as jet lag is still a thing for me. Or, given it’s overcast and hazy, watching the sky slowly shift to a lighter shade of grey.
This is our view right now
This is the view out our hotel room window. That blazingly bright thing in the middle there? Only Osaka Castle. 🙂