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    • Day 10

      Karaoke

      March 29 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

      So, ich "schulde" euch noch nen Footprint von gestern Abend, den ich jetzt im Shinkansen zurück nach Ōsaka, von wo aus ich weiter nach Kyōto fahre, tippe.
      Um 18 Uhr hab ich mich mit Toshiya getroffen (auf dem 1. Bild vorn), mit dabei war sein Freund Maeda, dem selbst ernannten Kendama-Weltmeister. Zu dritt ging es zunächst zu nem kleinen Gyōza-Laden, anschließend noch woanders was trinken, wo dann die kleine Remi dazukam. Mein grandioser Vorschlag war dann Karaoke und ich bereue nix, es war ein lustiger und schöner Abend, auch wenn Karaoke nicht zu meinen Stärken gehört 😂
      Zu den Gyōza wurde übrigens auch Qualle bestellt. Schmeckt jetzt nicht verkehrt, liegt aber hauptsächlich dran, dass es nach nichts schmeckt. Die Konsistenz ist sehr eigenartig, eine Mischung aus knusprig und gummiartig.
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    • Day 9

      Hiroshima Toshogu Shrine

      January 18, 2020 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

      The weather is a lovely 15* today (compared to the lows of 6 the previous few days), so I’ve decided to take this afternoon to complete the shrine hike up the mountain behind the Hiroshima Toshogu Shrine. This 4KM hike snakes up the mountain and ends at the peace pagoda.

      On the walk back down I met 4 English speaking tour guides who were plotting a new tour up the mountain hike. They invited me to a Japanese tea ceremony on the side of the mountain and even taught me calligraphy with proper ink and brush- was a fantastic experience!
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    • Day 16

      Hiroshima Castle und Shukkei-en

      April 13 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

      An Nachmittag sind wir zum Hiroshima Castle aufgebrochen und dabei vorbei am Fussballstadion Edion Peace Wing Hiroshima

      Und weil wir noch nicht genug hatten, gabs auch noch einen Besuch im Shukkei-en - einen typisch japanischen Stadtgarten.

      Um dann am Abend nochmal in der Okonomi mura Suigun zum Abendessen vorbei zu schauen.

      17.879 Schritte
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    • Day 17

      Leaving Hiroshima

      April 14 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

      What a wonderful city! I am not really sure about what it is, but I really fell to like Hiroshima. The people, the peace park, Miyajima and so on. A great place.
      Yet I still have to leave. But before I enter the Shikansen back to Tokyo, I do a short walk off the beaten tourist tracks to Hiroshima Toshogu Shrine, a big Shrine complex with only locals there, at least the time I was there. And then up to Peace Pagoda, a Buddhist Pagoda set up to always warn against entering war again - with its beautiful view over Hiroshima city, to the sea and the islands. It was wonderfully peaceful in the morning. And just before I had to go back to catch the Shinkansen for Tokyo I visited Tsutuhane shrine.Read more

    • Day 45

      Okonomiyaki - the Japanese pizza

      September 13, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C

      Geschrieben von Maike

      Ja, ich möchte dem berühmten Okonomiyaki einen eigenen, wenn auch vielleicht kurzen Blogartikel schenken, da diese Spezialität in Hiroshima sehr populär ist und ein eigenes Stadtviertel voller Okonomiyaki-Restaurants (Okonomi-Mura) hat. Heute habe ich mit Maleen zum ersten mal in diesem Stadtviertel Okonomiyaki gegessen - es war wirklich ein Erlebnis. Okonomi bedeutet so viel wie „Geschmack“ oder "Belieben", und yaki bedeutet „gebraten“. Dieses Gericht wird vor deinen Augen auf einer heißen Eisenplatte mit einem Spatel zubereitet. Nach der Hiroshima-Variante wird zuerst eine Art Crepe auf der Platte angebraten. Auf diesen Crepe werden in Streifen geschnittener Kohl, Gewürze, Meeresfrüchte (z.B. Shrimps), Fleisch, Kimchi und/oder Frühlingszwiebelringe gegeben, welche zusammen mit dem Crepe und unter Ausübung von etwas Druck angebraten werden. Daneben werden entweder vorgekochte Udon- oder Soba-Nudeln angebraten, welche am Ende auf den Kraut-Crepe gegeben werden. Nun wird ein Ei auf der Metallplatte angebraten, worauf der Kraut-Crepe platziert wird. Dieser ganze Krautbatzen, welcher von einer Seite mit dem Crepe und von der anderen Seite mit dem Ei bedeckt ist, wird nun unter häufigem Wenden angebraten. Am Ende wird der Braten mit dem Wichtigsten, der Okonomiyaki-Sauce, bedeckt, und an den Rand der Metallplatte geschoben, vor der man sitzt. Nun kann man den Braten direkt von dieser Metallplatte aus essen, indem man seinen eigenen kleinen Spatel zum Schneiden des Okonomiyaki verwendet.
      Ich war sehr neugierig auf die Zubereitung dieser Spezialität. Wenn ich jedoch ehrlich bin, hat mich der Geschmack nicht wirklich überzeugt - Ich kann ihn gar nicht richtig beschreiben. Die Sauce hat ein bisschen nach Barbecue-Sauce geschmeckt, aber die Kombi aus Kraut, Kimchi und Shrimps mit Ei und Crepe fand ich geschmacklich etwas merkwürdig. Trotzdem hat es sich gelohnt, diese sogenannte "japanische Pizza" einmal auszuprobieren!
      Neben der Hiroshima-Version gibt es noch Okonomiyaki in Osaka-Version, da beide Städte behaupten, dieses Gericht komme ursprünglich aus deren Region. Daher gibt es ab und zu einen kleinen Streit, welche der beiden Städte über die "echtere" Okonomiyaki-Rezeptversion verfügt.

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      English version

      Yes, I would like to dedicate an extra but short blog article to the "Japanese pizza" Okonomiyaki, as this specialty is very popular in Hiroshima and has its own district in the city centre full of Okonomiyaki restaurants (Okonomi-Mura). Today, I ate okonomiyaki with Maleen for the first time in this district - it was truly an experience! Okonomi means "taste" or "like", and yaki means "fried". This dish is cooked in front of you on a hot iron plate with a spatula. According to the Hiroshima version, a kind of crepe is first fried on the plate. On this crepe, cabbage cut into strips, spices, seafood (e.g. shrimp), meat, kimchi and/or spring onion rings are added. This is all fried together with the crepe while applying some pressure. Next to the crepe, either pre-cooked udon or soba noodles are fried, which are placed on top of the cabbage crepe at the end. An egg is fried on the metal plate, on which the cabbage crepe is placed. This whole cabbage patty, which is covered with a crepe from one side and with egg from the other, is now fried, being turned frequently. At the end, the patty is covered with the most important thing, the okonomiyaki sauce, and pushed to the edge of the metal plate in front of where you sit. Now you can eat the patty directly from this metal plate, using your own little spatula to cut the okonomiyaki.
      I was very curious about the preparation of this specialty. However, if I'm honest, the taste didn't really convince me - I can't even describe it properly. The sauce tasted a bit like barbecue sauce, and I found the combination of cabbage, kimchi and shrimp with egg and crepe a bit weird in terms of taste. Still, it was worth it to give this so-called "Japanese pizza" a try!
      Additionally to the Hiroshima version, there is also Okonomiyaki in Osaka version, as both cities claim that this dish originally comes from their region. Therefore, there is a little conflict about where the "true" Okonomiyaki recipe originally comes from.
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    • Day 21

      Shukkeien and Hiroshima Castle

      December 19, 2022 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 3 °C

      The Shukkeien gardens were very peaceful and nice to wander through, there were a few people but quiet enough to enjoy wandering slowly through. I found some massive quince which I wish I could have brought back for Varne to put in a cider, they were the size of your fist.
      When I got to the castle I started to feel sombre again as alot of the buildings had been destroyed and the castle was quite a bit smaller than the others I had seen, I wonder if it was rebuild more recently as it sorta looked like it.
      You get this strange feeling in this town that it's broken from the past a little but also somehow at peace with that. I don't know how to explain it but it's almost a broken spirit feeling. The people are still nice and happy but it's just a feeling.
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    • Day 7

      Sightseeing mit den Bosch Kollegen

      March 19 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C

      Heute Morgen ging es nach dem Frühstück 08:00 Uhr los auf unsere gemeinsame Bosch Tour.
      Es ging durch einen Japanischen Garten und danach zu einem Castle.

      Die meisten Gebäude wurden durch die Atombombe 1945 zerstört. Es blieben nur wenige stehen, z.B. der Atomic bomb Dome.
      Ein wenig erinnert das an unsere KZ-Anlagen in Deutschland.

      Im Anschluss ging es zu einer Japanischen Culture Insel mit dem Namen Miyajima mit teilweise originalen Gebäuden.

      Am Ende ging es zurück zu einem Abendessen mit viel Sake und Bier 🍺
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    • Day 6

      Shukukeien Gardens

      May 16, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

      We contemplated what to do on the way back from the island. We’d talked to a young couple yesterday who’d been to the Gardens and they were very impressed so we thought we’d have a look.
      Bit of a city tour on the green bus and we were there. Another picture perfect spot in the middle of a busy city. The Japanese really know how to do manicured gardens. There are so many, big ones, little tiny ones in front of apartments and houses.

      Hiroshima is hosting the G7 in a couple of days which we knew nothing about when we booked although I did wonder why nearly every hotel was booked out. Consequently nearly every policeman in Japan is here. They are literally on every street corner. Even over on the island this morning. We got a couple of them to take photos for us, they were very accommodating. 😂

      Made our way back into the restaurant area after the gardens. Still too early for dinner so we found a bar to have a drink. Had to pay ¥1100 to sit at the bar for half and hour but you got a free drink. Couple of very pretty girls behind the bar all dressed the same, black short skirt, white shirt, bit like Simply Irresistible. Umm we’re not really sure what sort of bar this is, seemed like once they’d got your drink they had to stay and talk to you. Hard work for our waitress, but she was doing her best. She wants to go to Australia later in the year and work for a year over there. So of course Graham gives her his card and invites her to stay with us. Well she was trilled and all the other girls came running over to look at the card. I wouldn’t be surprised if Monkey turns up on our doorstep in November. By this time our half and hour was up so either buy another drink or get out, Graham had another beer and we started quizzing the waitress where to have dinner, we’ll there was a big discussion across the whole bar and luckily one of their regulars or their pimp I’m not really sure which had a bit of English and he managed to tell us about a Sashimi restaurant only a few hundreds meters away.

      Set off to find this place with only a photo and the vague directions from old mate. After a couple of wrong turns and some guidance from a young guy getting into his flash car, he actually followed us in his car around a few corners to make sure we got there ok.
      Delicious sashimi, fish, prawns, caviar, eel, squid, bonito, very upmarket place all the chefs behind the bars in their gleaming whites.

      When we’d left the bar we noticed a charcoal grill place across the way, so after leaving the sashimi we decided to check it out. It was another winner. Got some cooking lessons off the head Chef ( well not really a chef because they don’t cook any thing you do that at the table but the knife skills they had to cut that meat, amazing) They had the baseball playing in there and Hiroshima was winning. They were all very excited when we showed some interest.

      When we got back to the hotel the funny little guy came running out to find us. Sorry sorry he keep saying, I’m pretty sure that the only English word he knows. He forgot to get me to sign the credit card slip, had probably been having anxiety attacks over it all day.
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    • Day 15

      Hiroshima - great city, great history

      April 12 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

      Starting with the Shinkansen from Osaka to Hiroshima in just 1:25h, a 330km journey which would usually take 4:30hrs.
      Arrived and off to beautiful Shukeien garden with blossoming cherries and other trees.
      Then the Hiroshima Castle. Just one tower was rebuilt of the once big compound.
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    • Day 15

      Shukkeien Garten und Burg von Hiroshima

      October 1, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

      Die Komoot-Tour, welche Daniel für unsere erste Erkundung der Stadt heraus gesucht hatte, führte uns als erstes in einen Park, der "Shukkeien Garten" heißt und Wiederaufbau eines Gartens aus dem 17. Jahrhundert ist, der beim Atombombenabwurf zerstört worden war. Die schöne Anlage ist Heimat von enorm großen Koi-Karpfen und auch von Wasserschildkröten, was Daniel natürlich sehr gefiel. 🤩 Nächste Station war die Burg von Hiroshima, die wie nur von außen in Augenschein nahmen. Weiter ging es in Richtung der "Atombombenkuppel".Read more

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    Higashi-ku, 東区

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