Reset search
正月の日の出
  • Ritz リッツ
  • Ritz リッツ

正月の日の出

A 26-day adventure by Ritz Read more
FollowInsightsInsightsCalendarCalendarPhotosPhotosShareShareBucket list
Newest first
  • Trip start
    December 30, 2024
    Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    成田到着

    December 30, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 36 °F

    - Tired from Jet Lag
    - Went to hotel and chilled
    - Met atsuya and went to look for food
    - Found an izakaya
    - discussed hoppy and happy

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    買い物と回転寿司

    December 31, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F

    -hamburger sushi looked very good so I order
    - Went to donquihote and uniqulo waiting to see what's going on with Totan and if we can go to his house yet
    - Bought a cool Jacket, it's rare to find one that comes down to my knees
    - Went to Karaoke with Totan and Totan's friends
    - Went to Totan's house after    Read more

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    正月

    December 31, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 45 °F

    - Karaoke
    - one of the friends brought homemade sake, it tasted like very expensive
    - Shared my american candies with everyone
    - Slept in the cot in other room, other people sleeping in futons
    - Said my japanese was "suspicious" because it was good
    - One of the friends really loved swing revival music    Read more

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    いかほのあさご飯

    January 2, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 34 °F

    - Explained the phrase "eyes are bigger than you stomach"
    - Vinegar drink concentrate that you mix with sparkling water. I want to make this at home now, loved the flavor.
    - Shoes hurt so much because the thong was in the center, hurt very much to go up the hill and back down
    - Buffet
    - Manhole covers cards exist and took a pic when I saw designs    Read more

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    モグラ駅

    January 2, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 37 °F

    - Real working train station
    - Has one of the longest stairwells
    - Nicknamed mole station
    - Some guy came up with a snow duck maker and lined up many ducks
    - Little girl came up to me to tell me how much she likes cats
    - Found out that you can drink as the passenger in Japan, was very surprised.
    - Atsuya asked if I wanted to drink a beer and I was like "what do you mean?! in the car?!"    Read more

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    鬼押出し公園

    January 3, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 30 °F

    - Trees dusted with whit snow
    - Rocks that fell off the mountain into this area
    - Name translates to "Oni thrown rocks park"
    - Rocks are very jagged
    - Accidentally hit the bell too hard because it didn't require too much force
    - Found dog fortunes (omikuji) specifically for your dog
    - Shopped some at the giftshop, bought sake    Read more

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    天風呂

    January 3, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 34 °F

    - Onsen
    - Ski Resort nearby
    - Lots of foreigners here due to the ski resort
    - One of the roads had speed bump that played a song
    - Acchan drove back so I could get a video
    - Igloo was just randomly in near the parking lot
    - Woman was playing the pikmin game and wanted to call her friend over to attack a mushroom    Read more

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    草津温泉 - Kusatsu Onsen

    January 3, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 34 °F

    - Found an airsoft store
    - Jigoku Onsen, so hot that you can't enter
    - The powders are the minerals that could be in different kinds of onsens
    - Onsen performance, women with paddles hitting the water

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    名古屋旅館

    January 3, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 32 °F

    - Ryokan at Nagoya
    - Atsuya was feeling sick at this point, he had caught the flu from the New Years party
    - Ate dinner then passed out since Atsuya was feeling sick

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    名古屋 Buddhist Temple Street

    January 4, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 30 °F

    - Went to the buddhist temple at the top of the hill
    - Buddhist explained to us about going into the dark
    - Shopping district
    - Buddhist smoke device
    - People would take in the smoke to "cleanse their soul"
    - Buddhist rakes were being held by some people
    - Atsuya said that these were meant to bring in wealth
    - I replied and said it was ironic because the temple takes peoples' money to give them the rakes

    - Amezake was very good, I would like to have more. It felt like drinking hot chocolate because it was cold out and the amezake was warm.    Read more

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    山の旅館

    January 4, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 19 °F

    - got to the onsen, I had to drive most of the way because Atsuya was hitting a peak of the flu
    - Narrow roads, lots of snow, lots of drop offs that would promise certain death
    - At dinner, the chef put a fish "Still alive". I wasn't sure if I understood so I had to check with Atsuya. The fish was still twitching and alive, I did not misunderstand.Read more

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    福井で沖縄の料理

    January 5, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 37 °F

    - Met Acchan's english teacher and her husband
    - Went to an Okinawan themed restaurant
    - Had "Tacosu" which is an okinawan dish similar to tacos but in sort of deconstructed.
    - Walked to the restaurant with Atsuya, there were very few people out and about. I said "there aren't many people out" and Atsuya responded with "there aren't many people in Fukui"Read more

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    布の店

    January 6, 2025 in Japan ⋅ 🌧 45 °F

    - Took the train from Fukui off to Nagoya to see Sekki and Ware
    - Got off the train and met Sekki and Ware
    - Went to a fabric store with Ware and Sekki in Nagoya
    - Bought some of the fabrics and plan to use them to make things back homeRead more

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    Nagoya's Specialty Eel Bowl

    January 7, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 41 °F

    暇つぶし＝killing time
    ひつまぶし=Specialty eel dish from Nagoya
    ^ This is a funny pun where they sound very similar

    Went to a restaurant with Ware that he said he went to pretty often when he used to live and work in the area.Read more

  • Ritz リッツ正月の日の出Traveler

    名古屋銭湯 - Nagoya's Public Bath

    January 7, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 39 °F

    - Very cool view, there is an area where you can go outside and see a big wall of trees with a waterfall going through, it was very peaceful and beautiful and made me want to come back.
    - Extremely strong electric bath
    - Anyone welcome, even those with tattoos
    - Saw some yakuza there    Read more

  • 2026© FindPenguins
  • Home
  • About us
  • Group Tracking
  • Press
  • Terms
  • Privacy Policy & Cookies
  • Help Center
  • Legal notice