Month: May 2012

Today I went to Tango, the region on the Japan Sea side of Kyoto prefecture. There is some great sightseeing ...

I was wandering home late last night and stopped in at one of my favorite little shrines in Kyoto. This ...

This morning, while I was biking home, I passed through the 'Tadasu-no-Mori' Forest, on the grounds of UNESCO World Heritage ...

I am a fan of Japanese sake from Shiga prefecture, which is just over the mountain from Kyoto. The ward ...

This morning I stopped by Oreno Pan, a bakery owned by Kyoto chef Naoki Okumura of Restaurant Okumura, Gion Okumura ...

This afternoon I went for a walk along the Kamo River and it was a particularly lovely late spring day. ...

Today, fellow foodie, Kyoto fan, culinary author, Jane Lawson and I got to spend several hours interviewing Yoshihiro Murata, the ...