First visit to Shibamata Teishakuten and Yagiri no Watashi
I visited “Katsushika Shibamata,” the hometown of a fellow business manager in Ginza, guided by him.
It has been nearly 50 years since I was a child, when my father took me to see Kiyoshi Atsumi’s “Otoko wa Tsuraiyo” at New Year’s and the Japan’s Best series by Ueki et al. and the Drift movies.
I was moved when I visited Shibamata Teishakuten, the site of the Tora-san movie “Huten no Tora-san,” for the first time in my life!
We also visited “Yagiri no Ferry” by Takashi Hosokawa…
Even now, a rowing boatman rows the oar to ferry us across.
We also visited “Yamamoto-tei,” a typical Shoin garden with a pond, artificial hill, and waterfall, which is a complex of Western-style architecture unique to the early Showa period.
We fully enjoyed eating soba noodles and grass dumplings recommended by a local!
As a souvenir, we were given “Isshii” for “Meidaiong Kusamochi” and enjoyed it. The entire process is done by hand.
It was a happy day to fully enjoy the good old downtown “Showa” era.
Thank you!
- Nara's Wakakusa Yaki (burning of Mt. Wakakusa) scorches the night sky in winter.
- Is this Chinese food? VELROSIE" in Kyoto
A summer tradition of kaiseki cuisine and luxurious cormorant fishing at Arashiyama Kitcho’s main restaurant
The Gion Festival is the highlight of the Yasaka Shrine festival, and the Yamahoko Junko (float procession) was viewed as the Mae-matsuri (pre-matsuri).
Have you ever heard of the term “Kyo-Chukka”? We visited the up-and-coming, young brothers’ restaurant “Kyo Zhonghua Makisada”.
Mr. Zaitei Hasegawa of Den, a Japanese restaurant that is ranked No. 1 in “Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants” and is constantly evolving.
Chakaiseki Cuisine at Kyoto Japanese Cuisine “MIZAI” May of Dragon Boat Festival was also wonderful! A time to learn a lot
