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Travel

Japan Planning Tips – All the best tricks!

Both Howie and I have been to Japan multiple times. I’ve been 3 times and Howie has been about 7 times since he likes to stop over on the way to Taiwan. You know from our previous posts that we learned a lot from our trips and love to share our Japan planning tips with […]

Travel

Lessons from our Disneyland Trip

It’s been some time since our last vacation! We decided to take an impromptu trip to Los Angeles since all our stars aligned. We wanted to spend a day at Disneyland because neither of us had been in years. I wanted to do as much as possible in our one day there but we were […]

Japan, Restaurant Review

Hiro (ヒロ)in Yamazaki

We went on a tour at the Yamazaki Distillery when we were on our Japan trip. The distillery itself is located in a small town called Yamazaki (duh) where there wasn’t very many restaurant choices. We had an hour before our tour so we popped by one of the few restaurants in town near the […]

Japan, Restaurant Review

Rakeru in Tokyo

Ever heard of Rakeru in Tokyo? One of the things I really like to eat in Japan is hamburger steak. It might look counter intuitive to go and eat western food while it Japan but it’s not odd. Westernized Japanese food is called yoshoku and it is very popular. You will find many different Italian […]

Japan, Restaurant Review

Nigiri no Tokube in Takayama

Due to my (small) addiction to UFO catchers, I was very happy to find out that there was a SEGA Game Centre in Takayama. Spoiler alert: we spent a lot of yen and walked away with nothing. However, we when we left it was nearly dinner time and when we looked across the parking lot, […]

Japan, Restaurant Review

Sant-AnGelo in Osaka

We went to Sant-AnGelo (サンタアンジェロ) for our last meal in Osaka before we headed off to Takayama. The address is: 5-1-60 Nanba, Chuo Ward, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture 542-0076. It can be tricky to find because it’s located in a mall called Namba City. Just walk past all the shops on the first floor to an […]