We went to visit Barry in Nagoya. We enjoyed a sunny day to walk around the city!
Beautiful modern architecture
Popular temple in Nagoya
Geta sandals outside the temple
Maneki Neko, the “the lucky cat” is a meeting point in Nagoya
Nagoya castle
European style building
Very creative metro station entrance
Monthly Archive for October, 2013
We had friends visiting over the weekend and as we went to Shinjuku, we decided to visit the “omoide yokocho”, the Memory Lane. It’s such an interesting area filled with small shops where one can enjoy fast food such as yakitori (meat skewers), ramen noodles, gyoza dumplings, with a beer. It’s hugely popular with salary men or just friends meeting after work.
The best of it all is the atmosphere of the place; it’s a few narrow streets with kegs of beer stacked in front of the shops, red lanterns hanging everywhere and smoke from the food being grilled
Before our flight back from Sapporo last week, we had to wait 6 hours at the airport. It was quite an annoying experience in perspective. However, the Sapporo New Chitose airport has the most amazing relaxation facilities I have ever seen! For 1,500¥ (roughly 10€) you have access to the Manyo complex where you have great hot spring baths, reasonable massage services, a lovely restaurant and some really relaxing reading/sleeping rooms.
Lobby of the premises:
Relaxation room: seats can be inclined fully like in first class and each comes with a TV; there was also a bookshelf where one could borrow books/manga. It was clearly Dave’s paradise…
My favourite place was the onsen (hot spring), obviously. Photo by manyo (it’s forbidden to take photos in the onsen area).
Delicious lunch in the restaurant: I ordered what’s called a sake oyako don, which mean “salmon mother and child”. Not a pretty name, but that’s what it is and it tasted delicious!
Finally, every customer is supplied with a yukata/pajama to wear within the premises. It feels really comfortable! It’s amazing to be so relaxed at the airport while waiting for the right time to go and check-in 🙂
