Category Archives: Shimada City

Oi Shrine (大井神社) in Shimada City (1)!

July 29, 2014 dragonlife Leave a comment

Oi Shrine (大井神社) in Shimada City is not only big but it is actually a whole collection of big and small shrines which accumulated there with times because of so many people having to stop there in Edo Times before crossing the very wide and dangerous Oi River.
As I visit Shimada City regularly, I think it is better to describe it in smaller articles in the near future than going into a unending story!
Let just me show what I took yesterday!

The famous statues of the Obi Festival which takes pplace every 3 years! The next one will be in 2016!

Japanese garden and river!

The entrance to the small bridge over the stream!

A large lantern!

One of the many hand washing basins!

The whole complex is surrounded with low stone walls and streams!

The following pictures were taken a little later just at dusk!

One of the side entrance torii gates!

Lighted lanterns under venerable trees!

Back to the hand washing stone basin!

One of the bigger shrines!

Back to the dancing statues in the dark!

A stone lantern surrounded by azalea trees!

The roaring guarding lion!

His smiling counterpart!

To be continued…

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Shizuoka Sake Tasting: Oomuraya Brewery- Wakatake Onigoroshi Tokubetsu Honjozo Genshu Nama

July 6, 2014 dragonlife Leave a comment

Every year I make a point of tasting this famous brand by Oumuraya Brewery in Shimada City: Onigoroshi!

There are many Onigorshi/”Kill a Goblin” in Japan, but this is arguably the most celebrated!

When you consider the alcohol content, the dryness and the lack of pasteurization, you need this to kill one!

Rice milled down to 60%
Dryness: + 9
Acidity: 1.３
Alcohol: 17-18 degrees
Bottle in May 2014

Clarity: very clear
Color: Faint golden hue
Aroma: Dry. Greens
Body: Fluid
Taste: Aggressive approach backed up by pleaaant alcohol.
Dry, Fruity.
Lingers on for a while, warming up the back of the palate.
Apricots, almonds, macadamia nuts.
Takes on an even drier turn with food.
Stays strong all the way.

Overall: Solid and straightforward, this is a very dry and strong sake for the “Macho sake” lovers!
The perfect complement to a BBQ or heavy izakaya gastronomy!
Designed to accompany food!

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Cafe Gallery Hiyori 日和 in Shimada City, Kawane Cho!

June 30, 2014 dragonlife Leave a comment

Service: kind, elegant and attentive
Equipment & facilities: Spotless clean overall. Superb separate gender washroom. Entirely non-smoking. Garden, private room, gallery and parking
Prices: Reasonable
Strong points: great coffee, light meals and drinks in a superb setting. Can be rented for private parties and events.

Yesterday, thanks to my good friend Osamu Kurosawa who lives in Ieyama, Kawane Cho, Shimada City, I discovered a real jewel of a Cafe Gallery named Hiyori, lost in the middle of the nature in Mijiro, Kawane Cho, Shimada City!

Kazuko Sawada/澤田和子さん had this superb building created away from the city last year to provide a haven in the middle of nature with the dual purpose of a Cafe and a Gallery!

The architectural style is resolutely modern and artistic!

But in the winter the cafe is heated with a wood oven!

The place is open only on Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays from 11:00 to 17:00 but can be opened at later hours or other days on requests for private parties or events!

One of the reasons Kazuko established this Cafe & Gallery is that her own sister has a soba restaurant in the neighborhood!
She serves homemade lunches, snacks and cakes and very good quality coffee and tea!

The place, being a gallery, is full of exquisite art work!

The whole place inside is entirely non-smoking although one can smoke outside in the vast garden!

One can sit at tables or at the counter in the main room…

… or retire to a Japanese-style room with view on the garden!

All elegance and tradition!

Have a good look at the garden as you might be tempted to sit under the eaves!

But if you come with friends you might be tempted to sit at the counter to share a pleasant conversation with Kazuko, too!

For guests who wish for a more substantial drink, shochu and wine are available (sake will come soon, I hope)!

Be aware this is great tea country, too!

And coffee is truly delicious!

This was my first and too short a visit, so expect more reports soon!

CAFE GALLERY HIYORI 日和

Owner: Ms. Kazuko Sawada/澤田和子さん
428-0103 Shimada City, Kawane Cho, Mijiro, 3395-3
Tel.: 0547-53-3356
Opening hours: 11:00~17:00 on Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays
Can be rented at later hours and other days with sufficient reservation.
Car park available
Entirely non-smoking
FACEBOOK

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Mr. Osamu Kurosawa’s Home in Ieyama, Shimada City! (Second Visit!)

June 29, 2014 dragonlife 2 Comments

Mr. Osamu Kurosawa, a very old friend of mine, decided after retirement as an officer at the Shizuoka Municipal Library to buy an old farm house in Ieyama, Shimada City for a meaningful life, now that he has plenty of time not only to really enjoy it but to make other people also share his pleasure.
Osamu is actually the recognized expert on Shizuoka, especially Shizuoka City, history and culture and has already published a number of books and papers on it.
He does not intend whatsoever to rest on his laurels and has embarked on a mission to promote the town he is presently living in.
Once again I had the great opportunity to meet him inside his home thanks to another good friend, also retired, called Shinzo Oishi who drove me all the way from Shizuoka City!

His house stnds by a green tea field in the mountains of Kawane where many other such houes are looking for new owners!

One of Osamu’s hobbies is to use local greenery to create all kinds of bonsai and landscape trays!

You will find plenty inside his home around the traditional Japanese-style hearth!

From another angle!

Natural artwork!

Even an old fry pan can be put to good use!

Osmau’s home is a real museum!Ancient earthenware sake bottles!

Fox gloves in ancient vase in front of an antique scroll!

Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu’s hollyhock crest (17th Century)!

I came well-armed with those two bottles of sake from Shizuoka City and Shimada City!

Osamu reciprocated with this extravagant bottle of Nanbu Bijin Junmai Daiginjo from Iwate Prefecture!

We shared the sake wit some simple but succulent local food bought at the sole local supermarket added with some beautiful vegetables prepared by Osamu!

Home-made Japanese pickles by Osamu completed a great country lunch and very enriching conversation!

We washed our fingers in water filled with wild Japanese pepper/sansho from a tree growing near Osmau’s home!

We did it in a very old lacquered bowl which was owned by Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Family!

We had coffee later in a superb local cafe but this is for another report!

Do visit Osamu Kurosawa on his FACEBOOK blog as he is fluent in English and Sapnish!

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Shizuoka Sake Tasting: Sanwa Brewery-Hagoromo no Mai Junmai Ginjyo

June 15, 2014 dragonlife Leave a comment

Sanwa Brewery in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City, has been producing this particular brand for quite a long time!

It commemorates an old legend in Shimizu Ku, Hagoromo or Hagoromo no Mai, The Dance of the Sky Spirit Veil!

Mentioning “Junmai Ginjyo” on a cap is a bit unusual in Shizuoka Prefecture!

Even for a 300 ml bottle a Junmai Ginjyo is not that cheap!

Rice milled down to 60%
Dryness: + 5
Alcohol: 15.5 degrees
Bottled in March 2014

Clarity: Very clear
Color: Faint golden hue
Aroma: Assertive. Banana, pineapple, nuts
Body: Fluid, slightly sirupy
Taste: Dry and fruity attack back up by puissant junmai petiillant.
Complex.Milk coffee, nuts, almonds, oranges with hints of dark chocolate
Disappears fairly quickly with strong hints of banana and nuts.
Very easy to drink in spite of its dryness.
Takes a lighter turn with food with stronger hints of milk coffee and later of bananas.
Even chilled shows many facets.

Overall: A very dry and fruity delicious sake one may enjoy chilled or at room temperature on its own or with food.
Very eclectic in the sense that you can choose the occasion to savor it!
Mind you, I would drink it on my own with some beautiful finger food!

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Shizuoka Sake Tasting: Oomuraya Brewery: Jyuubei Junmai Nama

May 27, 2014 dragonlife 2 Comments

What I really enjoy about some breweries in Shizuoka Prefecture is that only the produce limited edition sake so much for business but for preserving history and culture.
This very brand “Jyuubei/重兵衛” has been produced by no less than four generations of brewers!

Moreover, the rice is Shiuzoka-grown hyakumangoku!
Since it is a junmai/no pure alcohol blended in and nama/unpasteurized, it7s close to a very natural sake!

Rice: Hyakumangoku (Shizuoka Prefecture)
Rice milled down to 60%
Alcohol: 15~16 degrees
Bottled in May 2014

Clarity: Very clear
Color: very faint golden hue
Aroma: Dry and fruity. Green apples, apricots
Body: Fluid
Taste: Very fruity and dry attack backed up with puissant junmai petillant.
Very refreshing and complex.
Apples, pears, custard, apricots.
Disappears very quickly on a dry and fruity note with hints of dark chocolate and milk coffee.
Changes little with food but for a drier note.

Overall: Very refreshing sake away from the norm for Oomuraya Brewery.
Dry, elegant and fruity.
Complex enough to draw you into the second and third cup.
To drink with Japanese izakaya fare!

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Shizuoka Sake Tasting: Oomuraya Brewery-Wakatake Onigoroshi Honjozo Genshu

May 18, 2014 dragonlife Leave a comment

Oomuraya Brewery in Shimada City also offers quite a few brands in the practical 300 ml bottles!

This particular regular brand has made them famous all over the country!

“Onigoroshi/鬼ごろし”?”To kill the Goblin”!

A honjozo genshu is certainly needed to take care of goblins!

Rice milled down to 60%
Dryness: +12
Alcohol: 17~18 degrees
Bottled in March 2014

Clarity: Very clear
Color: Golden hue
Aroma: Assertive. Fruity. Pears, custard
Body: Fluid
Taste: Very dry and fruity attack backed up with strong and pleasant alcohol.
Complex. Fruity: very dry pears, green apples, Greens.
Facets difficult to catch.
Late appearance of coffee beans and a peek by dry oranges.
Disappears quickly on an even drier and deeper note.
Will take a sweeter turn with food before quickly coming back to its original dryness.
Marries well with any food.
For all its dryness and strong alcohol, it is more elegant than expected.

Overall: Very dry sake, with a somewhat restrained and elegant aggressiveness.
Incites you into the next cup in spite of its strong alcohol contents.
Can be thoroughly enjoyed on its own or with food at any temperature.
Definitively for lovers of both very dry and elegant sake.
Great with cheese!

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b Cafe in Shimada City!

May 10, 2014 dragonlife Leave a comment

Service: Very friendly and communicative
Equipment & Facilities: Overall extremely clean. Beautiful Washroom. Entrely non-smoking!
Prices: Reasonable
Strong points: Home–made cakes, fruit juice and coffee! Take-out welcome!

Yesterday chance served me well as I had arrived early in Shimada City and took some time to look around north of the station at ease just in case I made a discovery.

That is when I discovered this place bearing two different names, b Cafe and Chubby-Boo!

It is only after having sat down at the counter inside that I discovered that many locals come to buy their coffee and take out cakes at this counter inside! Very good idea!

The reason it is also called is because the shop used to house Chubby-Boo looked after Ayano Asaoka’s mother until her daughter joined hands with her in March when they had the whole redesigned to include a small cafe!

The kitchen is big enough for Beer b Nights 2 or 3 times a month when Ayano also serves light food including ratatouille and gratin to be enjoyed with the beer!

The menu is pretty extensive for such a small place including no less than 14 coffees, teas and soft drinks with cakes made on site!
If you order a cake the drink coming with it will be 100 yen cheaper!

I ordered for my first visit a home-baked cheese cake and straight coffee!

The home-baked cheese cake!

Really delicious and so appetizing!

Great coffee!

As this is obviously only my first visit expect more reports as I do have to taste the other cakes and participate to the next Beer B Night!

b cafe
427–0022 Shimada City, Hontori, 1-9-10
Tel.: 0547-35-6538
Opening hours: 10:00 am~05 pm (later on Beer B Nights)
Closed on Wednesdays, 1st & 3rd Sundays
Entirely non-smoking!

Chubby-Boo
Opening hours: 10:00 am~08:00 pm
Closed on Wednesdays

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Festivals, Horai Bridge, Shimada City

Japanese Festivals: 21st Horai Bridge Festival in Shimada City (May 24~25th)!

April 29, 2014 dragonlife Leave a comment

Horai Bridge in Shimada City is the longest wooden pedestrian Bridge in the World!

The Oi River was at its most difficult to cross in Shimada City along the Old Tokaido Road prompting the Meiji Government to build the (still) longest wooden bridge in the world, the Horai Bridge, in 1879. It is 897.4m long and 2.7m wide.
Not only it deserved to be walked across for a great vista but it also has the great merit to lead to vast green tea fields beyond a small mountain ridge along a lane dotted with statues of Seven Deities.

The Horai Bridge Festival also called 蓬莱橋ぼんぼり祭り/Horai Bashi Bonbori Matsuri/Horai Bridge Bonbori Festival will be held for the 21st time on Saturday may 24th and Sunday 25th. In case of rain canceling the event it will be held the following week end.

it will include parades in Edo and Meiji Era costumes, samisen-playing geishas and so on.

The official hurs of the Festival are 08:00~20:30 (Saturday) ~20:00 (Sunday) with events being held from 10:00 to 15:00 (Saturday) and 11:00~19:00 (Sunday).

Locale: Shimada City, Minami, 2 Chome, 22-14 (vicinity of Horai Bridge), about 1.5 km from Shimada JR Station (20-minute walk).

For more information call 0547-36-9899, asking for Yamamoto san (Shimada Turist Information Bureau)

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Mangazan Koji in Ieyama, Shimada City: The Only Temple in Japan Dedicated to Human Feet!

March 31, 2014 dragonlife Leave a comment

If you have the opportunity to get off one of the Oigaway Ralway Line trains in Ieyama, Hon Kawane, Shimada City, you will find a great oddity a few minutes walk from the walk from the Station!

Mangazan Kouji Temple!
It actually, like many similar places in Japan combines both Buddhism adn Shinto as both temple and shrine were built on the same spot!
This particular Temple was built in 1346, around 650 years ago !

This is the sole Buddhist Temple in Japan consecrated to the health of human feet!
But there is more to see there than this particular concern of the human atanomy!

Beware that guardian!

His companion is not be taken lightly either!

The lion guardians had something unusual about them!

It is the first time I find such lions with a mouth painted red!

Incidentally, such lion guardians bear a diffrent “grin”!

The temple also has a real Kyudou/Japanese archery shooting range at the back!

With all the water rushing down the mountain, rain or no rain, this is a very clean place!

The Buddhist bell!

Centenarian cedar trees everywhere!

For such a little place the way out is grandiose!

In search of Japanese history and culture!

Expect more soon!

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Japanese Wood Block Prints on Bus Stop Signs in Kanaya, Shimada City!

March 21, 2014 dragonlife Leave a comment

There is one very special bus line in Kanaya, Shimada City, called “Yume kaikan Tsukuri Kaikan/夢つくり会館/Dream Making Hall” leading from Kanaya JR Station to the aforementioned Hall.
I did walk long enough to go past 5 of their stops. You will have to walk a bit (lot) farther to see all the bus stop signs as there are 22~23 stops in all!
Mind you, next time, I might be tempted
Here at least the first five!

Kanaya JR Station bus stop!

“Oohashi Fudousen No Goan”! A famous ancient trek post by a bridge!

Tamachi stop!

“Kugi ni Utareta Yamaori no Hanashi/Tale of the gecko hit by a nail”!

Moto machi bus stop!

“Cha A no Tsubome/Tea House Story”! Also the name of a shochu brewed by Hana no Mai Brewery in Hamamatsu City!

Miyazaki machi stop!

“Nishiaribokuzanshi no Koto/Story of Nishiari Monk”!

Sansu Machi stop!

“Kawagoenin Sokusajiemon/The story of Sokusajiemon the River Crossing Porter”!

have good fun with the other bus stop signs!

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Shizuoka Sake Tasting: Oomuraya Brewery-Wakatake Oni Koroshi Honjozo Genshu

January 30, 2014 dragonlife Leave a comment

The “Oni Koroshi/Kill a Goblin” made by Oomuraya Brewery in Shimada City is probably the most famous Oni Koroshi in Japan and actually was the main brand sake of the same brewery.

It is a very dry sake originally aimed at male drinkers but times have certainly changed and everyone is enjoying it!

For the history amateurs!
If you want the translation just ask! LOL

Rice milled down to 60%
Alcohol: 17.1 degrees
Dryness: + 9
Bottled in September 2013

Clarity: Very clear
Color: Golden hue
Aroma: Assertive. Dry. Nutty.
Chestnuts, cherries, milk coffee
Body: Fluid
Taste: Very dry attack backed with pleasant alcohol.
Fruity: Apples, cherries
Alcohol not as strong as expected.
Lingers only for a while warming up the back of the palate.
Changes little with food but for a mellower turn backed with stronger alcohol.
Turns mellow with soft nuts once away from food.
As a nurukan/lukewarm shows drier but fruity facets. Turns then very dry but pleasant.

Overall: A sake for all seasons, especially with food. Can be enjoyed any temperature.
Another sake to bring at a BBQ or a raucous party!

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Oumuraya Sake Brewery Poster in Shimada JR Station!

December 23, 2013 dragonlife 2 Comments

This is the third picture I took the other day inside Shimada JR Station on my way down onto the platform.

There are other posters of sake breweries in Shizuoka Prefecture railway stations but as as I know this is the only poster featuring all the regular brands (private and commemorative/limited brands would cover a whole wall!) on one poster!

There is one particular label which is known all over Japan: the one on the extreme right is that of “Onna Nakase/女泣かせ/To make a woman cry!”. I know many collectors who would like that particular label!

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Station: The Drawing and meaning of The Kanji Characters!

December 23, 2013 dragonlife Leave a comment

After all I had a good time the other day taking pictures inside Shimada JR Station away from the wind and the cold as proven by the Ghost Ikebana Picture and a third one!

Station is “Eki” in Japanese and the Kanji character is “駅”

The left half of “駅” is “馬” for “Horse”!
The designer had a great idea to use a neck tie for the second vertical line!
The second part of “駅” is “尺” which is measurement unit used in old times. In short “駅/eki” means a post or station where horses could be exchanged!

Footnote: This is a poster demonstrating the work of police to keep stations safe from criminality!

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Ghost Ikebana in Shimada JR Station?

December 23, 2013 dragonlife 2 Comments

Shimada Station for all the size of the City and the proximity of Shizuoka Mount Fuji Airport is one of the drabbest ones in the Prefecture. Mind you nearby Kanaya Station does a lot to compensate as it is part of Shimada City!

I had 10 minutes to spare waiting from my train back home and did not want to spend on the cold and windy platform.

I found this live ikebana/flower arrangement in its display glass case and tried to take a picture of it. Unfortunately at night the neon lamps prevented me to make a deserving rendition of the beautiful arrangement but I ended with this fluke shot which rewarded my futile efforts!

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So Good Sushi Restaurant in Nice France
Navigating Nagoya by Paige, Shop with Intent by Debbie, BULA KANA in Fiji, Kraemer’s Culinary blog by Frank Kraemer in New York,Tokyo Food File by Robbie Swinnerton, Green Tea Club by Satoshi Nihonyanagi in Shizuoka!, Mind Some by Tina in Taiwan, Le Manger by Camille Oger (French), The Indian Tourist, Masala Herb by Helene Dsouza in Goa, India, Mummy I Can Cook! by Shu Han in London, Pierre.Cuisine, Francescannotwrite, My White Kitchen, Foodhoe, Chucks Eats, Things that Fizz & Stuff, Five Euro Food by Charles,Red Shallot Kitchen by Priscilla,With a Glass, Nami | Just One Cookbook, Peach Farm Studio, Clumsyfingers by Xethia, PepperBento, Hapabento, Kitchen Cow, Lunch In A Box, Susan at Arkonlite, Vegan Lunch Box; Tokyo Tom Baker, Daily Food Porn/Osaka, Only Nature Food Porn, Happy Little Bento, J-Mama’s Kitchen, Cook, Eat, Play, Repeat, Bento Lunch Blog (German), Adventures In Bento, Anna The Red’s Bento Factory, Ohayo Bento,