I consider myself to be a very lucky girl to be able to enjoy sakura two years in a row. We spent a considerable amount of time browsing the #sakura tag in Instagram, hoping someone in Osaka would have posted photos of fully blossomed sakura and geotagged the location. We just had go for hanami […]
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On our way back from Kuromon Market, we chanced upon Lucky Owl (¥1000 for an hour with a beverage). It didn’t take long for us to decide to pop in an owl café, and I especially wanted to check if my admission letter to Hogwarts was somehow misplaced. Little did we know, we were in […]
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Kuromon Market in Osaka is a must-visit for fresh produce food including seafood, sashimi, sushi, kobe beef, fugu (also known as the potentially deadly blowfish) etc. A lot of Japanese chefs and restaurateurs source their ingredients here, and it’s not hard to see why. Everything is fresh and big, so no skimping on quality here. […]
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The monthly flea market at the Kitano Tenmangu shrine is not to be missed if you’re in Kyoto, which is held on the 25th of every month. There is just so much to see and buy! After an hour’s long bus ride, we hungrily ate our way through the shrine. My firm favourite is oden, […]
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Arashiyama was another place we missed out on our previous trip. This time around, we’ve allocated an entire day for the Hozugawa River aboard the scenic railway and the Sagano bamboo forest. It was soothing to escape the city crowd and reconnect with nature at the outskirts of Kyoto. The Hozugawa River is gorgeously blue, […]
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Pontocho was one of the places I missed during my previous trip, not because it was too far away, but we idly walked past it everyday without realising how lively the street is. Traditionally, Pontocho is the nightlife district of Kyoto and both sides of the alleyways are filled with tea houses, yakitori restaurants, bars […]
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