A friend of our recommended this make your own okonomiyaki restaurant down the street from where we live. We decided to give it a try. The restaurant was located just north of National Route 50 along a side road in a predominantly residential area. The location was pretty inconspicuous and we would have never seen […]
We stopped at the Moriya Service Area during a day trip to Kawaguchi city in Saitama Prefecture. The SA was only an hour drive from our place in Mito. It was nice to stop and break up the trip. The SA was very large and modern. The parking capacity was on par with some of […]
It was a relatively short 25 minute drive to the Oarai Fireworks Festival in Ibaraki. We left around 15:30 and got to the area around 16:00. As expected, there was a decent amount of traffic. What made it worse, was that there was only one entrance and exit to the only public parking lot. Luckily, […]