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静岡県, 静岡市, 観光, Japan, Mount Fuji, Photography, Shizuoka, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Tourism

Tip of Mount Fuji at Okitsu Station, Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City!

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This is a season to keep your eyes well open as the cold and crisp air helps with photography when the sky is cloudless!

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mount has a knack to turn out in some interesting places!
I caught it from Platform 1 (you can’t from the others!) at Okitsu Station in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City!
I’m sure to come with more as I often take the train across the Prefecture!

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-Wine: Palate To Pen, Warren Bobrow, Cellar Tours, Ancient Fire Wines Blog
-Beer: Another Pint, Please!, Beering In Good Mind: All about Craft Beer in Kansai by Nevitt Reagan!
ABRACADABREW, Magical Craftbeer from Japan
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Weird Japan 39: Baked Heart!

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Talk of half-baked jokes!
I discovered this I went out of Okitsu Station in Shimizu, Shizuoka City!

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Mind it seemed to be a decent enough bakery which goes as far as announcing the baking times of its various breads and cakes!
No wonder!
They probably meant “baked with a heart”! LOL

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ABRACADABREW, Magical Craftbeer from Japan
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Kura: Japanese Traditional Warehouses in Shizuoka Prefecture 3-Galvo Gallery in Shizuoka City!

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“Kura” (in japanese 蔵 or 倉) means “warehouse” or “Storehouse”.
In traditonal Japan, especially during the Edo Era, as most of buildings and urba/village structures were made of wood, fires were the bane of society by and large.
However well-protected a fire would consume a house or buildings and all its properties within minutes.
Hence a special building or warehouse was needed to protect goods and properties against such a catastrophe.
But erecting a storehouse solely made of concrete, stones and some metal cost a vast amount of silver and gold and only rich merchants and nobility could afford them. Even castles could not be built entirely of stone then.

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I have been chasing “kura” in Shizuoka for some time but I had never realized that the most beautiful of them stood along my daily cycle trips in Shizuoka City!
There is a simple reason for that: I was always cycling past the front facade without bothering looking up!
And then yesterday as I was cycling around in search of a totally unrelated spot I espied the back of a grand kura across a large car park. Mind you, the car park is fairly new and lays in a spot formerly occupied by old buildings!

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So I got off my bicycle, leaving my bag in its basket (Japan is so safe, but I realized later that was border limit!), and practically ran across the car park (not really allowed, LOL!) to have a closer look.
How could I have missed such a big kura (enormous by Shizuoka standards) and the more for it being built of ancient red bricks? The roof had been restored and the fact that red does not really stand out in the city might have been other reasons!

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It is now owned by Galvo Gallery, a high end ladies fashion shop.
The great clothes in the display window tend to keep your eyes away for a more deliberate view of the building itself!

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Since the windows upstairs are kept shut they probably use the upper floor as a storeroom!

GALVO GALLERY「ガルボギャラリー」
Shizuoka City, Aoi Ku, Shichiken Cho, 8-4/静岡市葵区七間町8-4
Tel&Fax 054-251-6611

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Traces of The Past….. (Shizuoka City, Japan)

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Japan is a continual contradiction. Or a dichotomy?
If you just keep looking out enough you will find an incredible amount of themes for photography in a country both so hit-tech and still so analog in all fields!
I was cycling (a good method to find “sites”) in Ryogae Cho and Shichiken Cho in Aoi Ku, Shizuoka City when my eyes stopped on this big building that no one thought of cleaning a long time after an adjacent buiding had been pulled down to leave place for a car-park!

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The traces left by the defunct building are so vivid that the facade seems to wear its own ghost of the past…
At night nobody woule notice but it really uncanny in the morning by a bright late fall day!

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A zombie house?
Maybe.
Natural art?
Definitely!

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Wall Painting: 183 Popular Paintings in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City: 161~183!

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No 161) Riverside Scene by “Tomoko and Yuko”!

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The other day in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City, just as I was about to cross the bridge over the Tomoe Riverjoining S-Pulse Street and Jirouchou Street I noticed a long low wall on my left covered with paintings apparently left there by illustrious unknown amateurs!

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No 162) Amoeba by “Jo”!

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No 163) Mount Fuji, Sufing Edo Walker and Hagoromo by “3 Artists”!

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No 164) Moon Love by “S.O”!

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No 165) Nature Prince!

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No 166) Dolphins and Coral Fish!

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No 167) Shimizu Face!

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No 168) Coral Fish by “KO.S)!

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No 169) Shooting through a ladder?

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No 170) Coral Crab and Fish!

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No 171) Listening to the Sounds of The Sea by “H”!

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No 172) Clowns in The Sky by “W H”!

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No 173) Sea Lady by “Yumi”!

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No 174) Butterflies by “Kyoko”!

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No 175) Flower Girl by “Take”!

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No 176) Mountain Forest by “Ume”!

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No 177) Sunflowers House by “Matsu”!

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No 178) Arctic Undersea Creatures by “HH”!

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No 179) Bather!

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No 180) Happy Octopuses!

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No 181) Girl by The Sunset Shore!

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No 182) Fish Swimming to the Light!

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The end of the Pinted Wall!
Now, where has Picture No 183 gone!
I carefully counted them on my way back…..

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Cheese Bus in Shizuoka City!

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The buses seem to have started running the gamut of food in their advertisements in Shizuoka City!

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It’s only cheep processed cheese, but I wonder what would happen if people did eat cheese inside in the summer! LOL

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Wall Painting: 183 Popular Paintings in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City: 141~160!

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No 141) Sun-bathing man on the Beach!

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The other day in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City, just as I was about to cross the bridge over the Tomoe Riverjoining S-Pulse Street and Jirouchou Street I noticed a long low wall on my left covered with paintings apparently left there by illustrious unknown amateurs!

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No 142) Dancer by “Ai”!

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No 143) Strawbwrries by “Yukino”!

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No 144) Soap bubbles by “K H”!

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No 145) Hagoromo Pixies in the Miho Beach Pine Trees!

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No 146) Tasting Strawberries by “Keiko”!

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No 147) Soccer players by “K Yori”!

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Still a long way to go! And the skies are getting dark. And my phone camera batteries are getting dangerously low!

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No 148) Shimizu City Flower and Sea!

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No 149) Yellow Fish Jumping over the Surf!

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No 150) Flowery Twirl!

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No 151) Sliced Oranges!

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No 152) Soccer Player Kicking Ball Around Mount Fuji!

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No 153) Gun-totting Lady!

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No 154) Blue Train by “Yuki Asano”!

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No 155) Moon Letter by “Shoue”!

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No 156) Fruit Palette!

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No 157) Sea Cliff Through Hibiscuses!

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No 158) Squirrel Flying in front of a Sunset-red Sea!

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No 159) Rainbow Boat!

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No 160) Playing across the Paddy Fields under the Sunset by (Y.S”!

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Manhole Covers in Shizuoka Prefecture 3

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Manhole covers do not have to be round but can come as square, rectangular and even “double-doored! as this one above!

I already know of many blogging friends in Japan taking pictures of manhole covers all over this country.
The reason is simple enough: as there is little chance of them being stolen (I can’t say the same thing back in our countries!) the local/municipal government often use them as touristic advertisements !

I continued looking around Aoi Ku and Shimizu Ku in Shizuoka City and in other cities.
As I’m sure there are quite a few around there should quite a few more articles about the subject in the offing!
I might even close this series with another “Ten Best”!

This time I concentrated in Aoi Ku, Shizuoka City, which allowed me to go a bit more technical all about it!

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Another large rectangular manhole belonging to NTT/Nihon Telephone & Telegraph Company!

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The log/arms/”mon” in the middle of this water duct/outlet manhole cover is actually the real seal of a Japanese family!

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Haisui/排水 means “drainage”. In that case, access to ducts and pipes taking care of excess or rain water!

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A large circular manhole owned by the Chubu Denryoku/Shizuoka Central Electric Power Company with their logo in the middle!

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The same company has a few rectangular ones with the same pattern and material as surrounding pavement tiles!

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I’ve finally found the name of one Company fabricating these heavy wrought iron manholes!

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Hasegawa Foundry Company!

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Access to the Municipal heavy water equipment!

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Another Haisui/排水/”drainage manhole cover blending into the surrounding pavement!

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Osui/汚水 means “dirty/soiled/sewer waters”!

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A manhole cover over a air-pressurized water outlet

Care to join the search?

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Urban Skies in Japan: Blazing Cables

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It had been raining heavily all day long yesterday and when the skies started to clear up the sunset seemed to inflame the slowly vanishing clouds.
I just happened to go out when I noticed the red fog-like clouds bursting into flames beyond the aerial telephone cables once again!

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Blue Cheese and pineapple Hamburger Lunch at BLUE BOOKS cafe in Shizuoka City!

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Service: Very friendly, smiling and attentive
Equipment & Facilities: Great overall cleanliness. Superb washroom in same building separated from the cafe.
Prices: Reasonable for such big servings!
Strong points: Very generous cafe/bistro multi-genred gastronomy. Great variety. Great products. Entirely non-smoking in very modern atmosphere. Great books!

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It seems I can’t keep away from Hamburgers these days in spite of my being French!
So the other I felt compelled to check the menu at BLUE BOOKS cafe in Aoi Ku, Shizuoka City, again!

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Now, what did I order?
Blue Cheese and Pineapple Hamburger Lunch Set!

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AS usual extra lettuce for good balance!

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The Blue Cheese and Pineapple Hamburger!

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For a closer look of the hamburger!

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I love the way they secure the whole edifice wit a wooden stick bearing their name!

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These hamburgers are always so well balanced! Plenty of lettuce again!

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And fresh tomato!

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Now, this is true blue cheese, piquant and tasty with salt of the cheese compensated by the sweetness of the fried pineapple ring!

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And succulent high class beef, with a good bite!

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And plenty of French (Belgian) fries!

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And a pot of tea served as it should be to wash it all done!

See you again there!

BLUE BOOKS cafe
420-0857 Shizuoka City, Aoi Ku, Miyuki-Cho, 4-6, Den Bldg 1F (5~10 minutes walk straight ahead from Shizuoka JR Station North Exit, around the corner at the large crossroads)
Tel.: 054-280-7644
Opening hours: 11:00~14:30 (lunch), 14:30^17:30 (cafe), 17:30~23:00 (dinner)
Entirely non-smoking!

Credit Cards OK
HOMEPAGE
FACEBOOK
Twitter: @BlueBooksCafe

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Wall Painting: 183 Popular Paintings in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City: 121~140!

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No 121) Beach and Surf!

SYNOPSIS

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The other day in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City, just as I was about to cross the bridge over the Tomoe Riverjoining S-Pulse Street and Jirouchou Street I noticed a long low wall on my left covered with paintings apparently left there by illustrious unknown amateurs!

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No 122) Fish Under the Surface!

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No 123) Soccer Kids by “Ringo Kaori Kato”!

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No 124) Light on the Pier at Night by “Michiko”!

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No 125) Fishing Goddesses

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No 126) Fountain by “Miyao”!

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No 127) Road to the Sea by “Mari”!

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No 128) Raining Flowers by “Moe”!

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No 129) Shimizu Gull!

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No 130) Oranges at a Kotatsu!

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No 131) Soccer-playing Fish!

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No 132) Red Sun Beach!

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No 133) Dolphins Searching for the Light (and impeded by a ladder!)!

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No 134) Starfish on the Beach!

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No 135) Red Seahorses by “HF”!

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No 136) Walking through High Leaves and Flowers (and being impeded yet by another ladder!)!

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No 137) Irises By S.K”!

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No 138) Goal keeper by “Aimi & Sasaki”!

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No 139) Sea Coral and Starfish by “Yukari N”!

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No 140) White Corals!

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HIGHOCTANE/HAIOKU by Nick Itoh in Shizuoka City

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American Gastronomy: Hawaiian Loco Moco at Aloha Table in Shizuoka City!

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Service: Friendly and smiling
Facilities and equipment: Great cleanliness overall. Superb washroom on same floor
Prices: Reasonable
Strong points: Hawaiian gastronomy

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I have wanted to visit Aloha Table since the Den Bldg was renovated at lunch but I had been discouraged by the long queues until I came a bit later yesterday and finally could find a seat!

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The entrance is located on the second floor!

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Apparently the original restaurant is in Waikiki, Hawaii!

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I had a good look at the menu posted outside first!

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Loco moco, that’s what I wanted!

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A little geography lesson is always useful!

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Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing!

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The drink bar!

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Menus clearly announced everywhere!

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Very simple in concept but appetizing!

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Special mark for the free drink bar: consomme soup, lemonade and white wine! As much as you want!

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Good-balanced lunch!

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The meat patty is very tender and really tasty. A good mark for the sauce, too! Breaking the egg yolk and mixing it with sauce is a pleasure!

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And the rice is excellent, too. Not always easy! Eat the whole with a spoon!

Next I must try the Garlic Soft Shell Shrimps!

ALOHA TABLE Hawaiian cafe & Dining
Shizuoka City, Aoi Ku, Miyuki Cho, 4-6, Den Bilg, 2F
Opening hours: 11:00~23:00 (Lunch until 17:00)
Non smoking until 17:00!
HOMEPAGE

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Shizuoka Shochu Tasting: Takashima Brewery-TBL Eau-de-vie Rice Shochu

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Takashima Brewery, which is primarily a sake brewery in Numazu City, Eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, Is making itself another name with its superlative shochu. Using thier sake white lees, they have already put no less than four different brands on the market!
TBL stands for Takashima Brewery Limited and Eau-de-vie (“Life Water”) is French for Life Spirits!

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At 255 alcohol (not 25 degrees) it is pretty heady but normal as far as alcohol content is concerned!
My dear friend Sissi will be glad to hear about another shochu from Shizuoka Prefecture!

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Rice Shochu made with ginjo sake white lees as well as rice and rice kouji.
Yeast: Shizuoka NEW-5
matured for 1 year
Alcohol: 25%

Clarity: Extremely clear
Color: Transparent
Aroma: Comparatively mild and discreet. Dry. Fruity: notes of bananas and custard.
Body: Fluid
Taste: Strong well-rounded dry attack warming up back of the palate.
***Tasted at room temperature: Dry and fruity.
Complex. Faint bananas and dry almonds.
Strong and pleasant alcohol.
very elegant approach. Disappears quickly on a softer note with more dry almonds.
***Tasted on ice: Reveals new facets as it gradually warms inside the mouth.
Bananas, macadamia nuts, hints of dark chocolate.

Overall: Extremely elegant sake white lees (riceis a different license!), typical of Takashima Brewery!
Can be thoroughly enjoyed on its own or poured over plenty of ice.
Great with Perrier or any high quality mineral water.
No need to mix it with anything else!
A shochu for all seasons and both genders! Shochu loving ladies will find it very elegant!

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Wall Painting: 183 Popular Paintings in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City: 101~120!

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No 101) Abstract River and Field!

SYNOPSIS

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The other day in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City, just as I was about to cross the bridge over the Tomoe Riverjoining S-Pulse Street and Jirouchou Street I noticed a long low wall on my left covered with paintings apparently left there by illustrious unknown amateurs!

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No 102) Heda Bay in front of Mount Fuji by “A.T”!

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No 103) Tea hand-picking in front of Mount Fuji!

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No 104) Sea Ghosts by “Rina”!

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No 105) Tasty Strawberry!

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No 106) Tropical Sea Landscape by “Sakura & Ine with T”!

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No 107) Smiling Red-haired beauty by “Satsuki”!

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No 108) Hunting Astride a Shark!

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No 109) Dantesque Sky!

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No 110) Palm Tree!

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No 111) 1998 World Soccer cup Champions France!

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No 112) Oranges!

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No 113) Walking Among Fish!

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No 114) Dolphins na Flower by “Ai”!

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No 115) Shimizu Tanabata Festival by “Keiko”!

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No 116) Flying Fish!

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No 117) Fireworks viewing from the harbor in front of Mount Fuji by “Chiemi & Yasuko”!

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No 118) Fantastic Ship by “Arisa”!
Another favorite of mine!

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No 119) Soccer-playing Kids!

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No 120) Hagoromo Veil by “Yuka”!

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Japanese Gastronomy, Markets & Local Products at S-Pulse Dream Plaza in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City!

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Kappa Chan at Kaldi Store!

If you have the occasion to visit (choose a rainy day!) Shimizu Ku (formerly Shimizu City before it was merged with Shizuoka City), you ought to try and visit S-Pulse Dream Plaza to have a good look at the local gastronomy in markets and taste it in the many restaurants inside! I can assure you there is lot to investigate as Shimizu is a major fishing harbor in Japan and is surrounded by the greatest variety of agricultural producers!

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First of all take the Tokaido Line/JR Line and get off at Shimizu.
Once past the ticket machines turn right, walk to the first exit and go down the stairs!

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Once downstairs turn left and look for the bus stop ring!

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Your bus stop is just beyond this (strange) sign!

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This is the schedule (weekdays on the left and week-ends on the right) for the free limousine bus service to S Pulse Dream Plaza!

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Incidentally this is also the bus stop for the free limousine bus to the ferry harbor if you want to take a ferry boat to Toi, Izu Peninsula!

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This is your bus!

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Board in at any of the two doors!

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Alright let’s have a good look at the restaurants and shops on the first (ground) floor!
Suruga Wan Shokudo/Suruga Bay Canteen!

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Hatoba Kitchen Restaurant!

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I told you that Shimizu is a major fishing harbor!

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Kaldi Coffee Farm!
They also serve a great selection of wine, sauces, preserved foods, pasta, etc.!

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Tezuka Shoten Ramen JIN Restaurant!

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Totoraku, serving fried sakuraebi bowl from Yui among others!

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Manmaya Eel Shop!

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Shimizu Harbor delicatessen and bento shop!

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Kaidoya shop specializing in unusual marine products!

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Nobu Chan Fish Market specializing in Shimizu Tuna!

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Live TV of their kitchen!

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Have a god look at the shop, left and right!

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Great and so reasonable fresh sushi bento!

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Only seasonal and local as far as fresh fish is concerned!

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Live seafood also available!

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Spicy Shizuoka Tuna preserves!

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And of course the Shizuoka specialty, bonito/katsuo (cooked in this case)!

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Kanei Suisan Shop specializing in sundried fish/himono and preserved marine products!

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First-class preserved seafood!

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Irifune Vegetables & Fruit Market!

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Benihoppe/Red Cheeks Strawberries, a Shizuoka specialty since 2002!

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Shimizu Groceries Store!

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Taki Delicatessen Shop!

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Tonkatsu Saboten Shop specializing in tonkatsu!

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Great variety of very reasonable bento!

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Shinoda Liqueur Shop, one of the very best in Shizuoka Prefecture where you will find local and Japanese drinks of all genres!

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Rare shochu from Shizuoka Prefecture!

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Shizuoka sake mini cups and mini bottles!

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Rare sake from Shizuoka and elsewhere!

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At the bottom Shizuoka Craft beers by Bryan Baird and Stephan Rager!

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Minato Pan, a great bakery where you can eat onsite!

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Mount Fuji melon Bread!

I already have introduced Umi Sushi Restaurant there but there are more to come as well as other shops and attractions!
Stay tuned!

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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,

Must-see tasting websites:

-Sake: Tokyo Through The Drinking Glass, Tokyo Foodcast, Urban Sake, Sake World
-Wine: Palate To Pen, Warren Bobrow, Cellar Tours, Ancient Fire Wines Blog
-Beer: Another Pint, Please!, Beering In Good Mind: All about Craft Beer in Kansai by Nevitt Reagan!
ABRACADABREW, Magical Craftbeer from Japan
-Whisky: Nonjatta: All about whisky in Japan by Stefan Van Eycken
-Japanese Pottery to enjoy your favourite drinks: Yellin Yakimono Gallery

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HIGHOCTANE/HAIOKU by Nick Itoh in Shizuoka City