A weekend visiting old storehouses doesn’t sound that interesting, but when the storehouses contain sake breweries with tasting opportunities, things look a whole lot brighter. It also helps that the storehouses are traditional old structures with a lot of character. Aizu Wakamatsu and neighbouring Kitakata, north of Tokyo in Fukushima Prefecture, have lots of old kura (storehouses), samurai… Continue reading Sake & mama-chari samurai
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Hiroshima weekend
I went down to Hiroshima last weekend to see Masashi, my old high school homestay family’s brother, and his wife Maiko and son Hinata. Masashi lives in Mihara, a city about 60km east of Hiroshima, on the Seto Naikai (Seto Inland Sea) coast. As the local delicacy is tako (octopus), we went to lunch at a… Continue reading Hiroshima weekend