Fushimi Inari Taisha

Torii

Sitting in an immaculate wooden booth, you nurse your traditional Japanese breakfast of soba noodles in a smokey dashi broth. The restorative kake soba noodle soup and the accompanying sencha tea wake you from your early morning drowsiness and give you the vigour you need to begin your day’s traipsing in Kyoto. The restaurant, Honke […]

Sumiyoshi Taisha

Sake

Your stomach is filled to bursting as you get on the Nankai line train at Namba station. You ooze takoyaki and okonomiyaki through your pores. Osaka is a city of feasting excess. Everywhere you look there is food. Having ruined yourself on the food, you need to gain some spiritual fodder. The immaculately spotless train […]