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On Saturday, my darling asked me to wear Yukata (casual summer kimono) for dinner. At first, I refused to wear it because I forgot how to wear it and was very muggy outside. My darling at last searched for an instruction at YouTube and taught me how (read full article)
Fun time passes really fast. Now we are back in Japan already. It was like a dream to walk in New York city with my darling again. Blessed with the weather, we had no rain and the day we took our wedding photos was super nice with cool low temp. Day (read full article)
Last Friday, I met my brass band friends and the teacher from high school. It has been more than 10 years to get together. It all started with my wedding stuff. I really never see them again unless I look for my old friends' contact info, you know!! (read full article)
6/7 is the day I met my darling! It has been already 7 years since then. Time flies... This year, I was kind of busy with our new home, wedding and my cooking stuff, so I forgot to remind him of the day! I hope he remembers... My hair is not that st (read full article)
From 4/29 to 5/1, my darling and I've been to Hokkaido for the first time in our life!!! As you might know, Hokkaido is located at the northern tip of Japan. The climate there is similar to that of NY! It was pretty cold there (and unfortunately rain (read full article)
On the weekend, my darling and I visited Hirado city in Nagasaki prefecture. 4/4 was my darling's 35th birthday, so we celebrated his birthday there, too! We stayed at the hotel called 旗松亭 (Kishoutei), which was the prize for the Dutch food con (read full article)
Sakura light-up is currently taking place along the river (senkawa) near home from 3/31 to 4/4. Last night, the trees weren't in full bloom, but were very beautiful. It is already April, the first day of the new (school) term in Japan. I saw many fr (read full article)
Yesterday was a busy Valentine's day. I had to cook recipes for deadlines... In addition to handmade chocolates, I gave my darling budonoki's famous char-grilled chocolates. Each piece costs 300yen (3 bucks), so I haven't tasted them. The round one i (read full article)
My darling was cooperative last night. He wore 鬼(devil) mask for me to throw the beans on Setsubun! How neat this mask is! Your nose pops out from a hole so it looks like 3D. I got this mask at the supermarket for free!Of course, I made Ehomaki! Th (read full article)
The time has come...I became 30 on 12/9!!!At night, I had a dinner with my daring. He took me to a restaurant called HEART LEAF in Shibuya. The restaurant was cute with many heart decorations. At such a cute restaurant, in the middle of our dinner, h (read full article)
On November 22nd, we filed our marriage paper!!!In Japan, 11/22 is a good married couple day. We read (as phonetic equivalent) 11 "ii" which means "good" and 22 "fu-fu" which means "married couple". Very simple, but we will never forget this date ;)I (read full article)
Time flies. Christmas is right around the corner!!! Streets in Tokyo are decorated with Christmas trees and lighting. People are looking for Christmas presents already.Last Saturday, I found a cute pink Christmas tree in front of the department store (read full article)
Finally! I am going to write about Monday the holiday. My boyfriend and I took a day trip to Hakone :) We knew we can easily get there by Romancecar (express train), but we have never used it, so we decided to go there once! It is about an hour and a (read full article)
On Sunday evening, my boyfriend took me to Jiyugaoka since he found a Megami (Goddess) Festival there on the website. The festival is held every year in October. It's the biggest festival of all in Jiyugaoka which hundreds of thousands of people come (read full article)
On Saturday, my boyfriend and I went to Roppongi Hills. There was an interesting event where you can experience Panasonic's "Full-HD 3D"! We saw demo videos of Olympic games and movies. They were amazingly beautiful. I hope we can enjoy high-quality (read full article)
The next day, we left Hikone and went to Kyoto.Over a finite period of time, we went to see Kiyomizu-Dera (Kiyomizu Temple), Kinkaku-Ji (The Gold Pavilion), and Ryoan-Ji (Ryoanji Temple).Kiyomizu-Dera (清水寺) is an independent Buddhist temple in (read full article)
This week, we had three consecutive holidays, which we call silver week: 21st (Respect-for-Senior-Citizens Day / Keiro-no-hi), 22nd (National Holiday / Kokumin-no-kyujitsu), and 23rd (Autumnal Equinox Day / Shubun-no-hi). Our silver week was great! O (read full article)
The weather was clear on the weekend, so we went to Deutsch Bier Garten in Tokyo Midtown!Under the blue sky, we had Hofbräuhaus München's good quality draft beer along with authentic German dishes! My boyfriend and I shared 3 kinds of beer.- Hofbr (read full article)
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