I am grateful that my first Goshuin acquiring experience was memorable, even if it had started with an angry monk in a temple.…
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My first Soba noodle experience wasn’t much different from my first Ramen experience in Japan. I first had it in Japan and it wasn’t my choice in the first place to eat it. It was past lunchtime when I ducked through the noren (Japanese curtain), into a no-name hole-in-the-wall restaurant on a small alleyway…
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People are calmer and friendlier in Nagano city; even the snow monkeys were super chill here which contribute to their high life expectancy.…
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In Karuizawa, we roamed the beautiful Christmas village before returning to Nagano, where we had a late lunch of delicious soba.…
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