Toshikoshisoba

i eat buckwheat noodle on new year eve.

this is a traditional japanese custom.

today i worked, i'm very tired.

Wendy's

today i visited Shinjyuku. i really wanted to eat wendy's humburger.

all wendy's will be closed down on 31 december.

even though it's delicious.

Hello Kitty cleans my dvd

I get new dvd cleaner.

DOGO ONSEN

2 years ago i visited matsuyama. i love onsen(hot springs).

the building is the famous dogo onsen bath house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dgo_Onsen

the room in the building shows about soseki natsume.

he wrote a novel;botchan under his experience in matsuyama.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botchan

China town in yokohama

it's nice. i love chinese food. i have visited china town in london, singapore,kobe.

dekirukana?

yesterday i saw noppo-san on tv.

he is a cast in the legendary tv program dekirukana?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekirukana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSlVCmDPrCo&NR=1

荒城の月 KOUJYOU NO TSUKI

the monument is for a song koujyou no tsuki 荒城の月 in aizu wakamatsu castle.

it means the moon on the ruin of a caste.

the song was written by mixed western and japanese music.

enjoy on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI5kFfbAgis

ninomiya kinjiro

he is ninomiya kinjiro(1787-1856)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninomiya_Sontoku

you can see his figure in every elementary school all over japan.

of course it was in my school.

it's at odawara station. i often went to odawara when i worked at hot spring spa resort hotel in itoh, shizuoka prefecture.

i encountered mr ryotsu

i lost ex-job for the world economic crisis.

i looked for new work. so i visited kameari for a job-interview.

i didn't pass the interview. but i saw ryo-san inf ront of the station.

once i was told by jobmates" you are ryotsu!!"

because of square face, body shape, short hair.

i may agree in it. i may be otaku,either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochira_Katsushika-ku_Kameari_K%C5%8Den-mae_Hashutsujo#Characters

Matsusaka beef and ise ebi(japanese spiny lobster)

i have never eaten matsusaka beef and ise ebi(japanese spiny lobster).

i told my friend it.

he sent me them. they are potato chips.

chocolate parfait

i love chocolate parfait. it's popular in japan.

kishimen

at nagoya station i ate kishimen. it's a kind of udon. famous in nagoya.

to tokyo i took on local train. i gave up on the way at nagoya. i took super express shinkansen.
it's very comfort. i only sit on the seat and charged mobile phone battery.

BBQ

this is yoshoku. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dshoku
my great grandfather started the restaurants.
now only one is still managed by my relative.
it's nice. i often ate in my childhood.

yoshoku is western influenced cooking in japan.
i heard passengers for long trip on ship were really fed up and eager for japanese taste.
cooks made new recipes. this is the begining of yoshoku.

Sanuki Udon

Udon is our soul food in kagawa prefecture.

we eat udon once in a day in takamatsu.

Marugame castle

this is marugame castle in kagawa prefecture.
the castle tower is one in existing 12 towers built before meiji era.
in meiji era, the government was afraid of rebellion by ex-samurai who lost their positions.
then the government broke a lot of castles. so only a few buildings remain now. you can see a lot. but they are almost rebuilted by reinforced concrete in 5o years.

Uirou

on the way to takamatsu,i passed through odawara.

i got uirou. it's a sweet like youkan.

uirou means a family name.

family uirou served guests with the sweet.

uiro uri(uiro seller) is one in eighteen best kabuki plays.

Onigashima

this is onigashima.

it's famous as demon island of momotaro(peach boy).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momotar%C5%8D

last week i was in takamatsu(my hometown).

saba sushi

this is kyoto style sushi.

mackerel on rice rolled by sea tangle.

i miss kyoto.

Kawagoe

I often visit Kawagoe.

it's nice. we can see old buildings.

Rail transport modelling

Today I went to the museum in Sayama.

it's the exhibition of rail transport modelling.

it's very nice.

but i saw the history in sayama,either.

it was very interesting.

At Murakami station

i visited murakami in niigata prefecture on the return way from tsuruoka to saitama.

murakaimi is well-known as the northern edge of tea industry.

tea is subtropical plant. so it's hard to plant in north.

i took joetsu shinkansen from niigata to saitama.

murakami was nice. i recomend you to go.

Tsuruoka

i visited sakata, and then i went to tsuruoka.

tsuruoka is very nice for sight-seeing.

i don't know why it's not famous.

old town, beautiful scene.......

a lot of things to see.........

the photo is the school of samurai.

a lot of schools for samurai exsited.

but you can see here only now.

Kujira mochi

i ate kujira mochi in yamagata prefecture.

it's very good. i love it.

it's sweet rice cake.

it's not whale. 久しく持ちが良い、久持良（くじら）餅（もち）

it keeps long times.

YONEZAWA

after i left aizu wakamatsu, i visted yonezawa.
the photo is yonezawa castle.

the flags are famous for uesugi kenshin.
one is dragon, another is vaisravana.
uesugi kenshin believed he was vaisravana.

AIZU WAKAMATSU

in this winter i travelled around aizu and yamagata.

i had never been to tohoku district.

i really wanted to visited aizu wakamatsu castle.

this was my first time experience i saw frozen outside water.

the pictures are aizu wakamatsu castle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizuwakamatsu_Castle

Kashiwa mochi

kashiwa mochi is very sweet.

i love them.

TEA FEILD IRUMA.

This is the most famous tea field in iruma, saimata.

Japanese tea

I work at Japanese tea campany in Saitama.

in this year i started to work.

tea is very sweet and mild.