The K2 International group we featured last issue runs “Okonomiyaki Columbus”, a local favorite okonomiyaki restaurant which celebrates its 33rd anniversary this year. The restaurant features chic ambience while exhibiting and selling artwork created by an ink painter and an older brother of the owner, Ichigai Kanamori. What attracts people to this restaurant is its wide variety of menu items and its reasonable prices. You can choose different okonomiyaki ingredients depending on your mood. The menu includes “Osaka pork modern” (¥1100), filled with noodles, and “Camembert mentai monjya” (¥2750), a popular dish stuffed with a camembert cheese block. If you…
Author: Brian Kowalczyk
During this difficult pandemic, exploring close to home has perhaps never been a more appealing option. Misaki Port, in the city of Miura, offers a plethora of excellent seafood combined with a chance to get out and stretch your legs strolling its scenic coastline. Take the Keikyu Line all the way to its terminus at Misakiguchi Station (around an hour from Yokohama Station by frequently running express trains). From there you can continue on to the port by bus or give your legs a workout by cycling. Rental bikes are available at Misakiguchi Station with advanced reservation (visit miuracycle.com). The…
As a foreigner living in Japan, long have I had to watch in envy as friends visiting from abroad thoroughly enjoyed zipping around the country on the all-you-can-ride JR Rail Pass. For just under ¥30,000 they would spend the week traveling the length of the country while I sadly followed on social media from the confines of my apartment. My fellow resident aliens surely can relate to the disappointment of being left out. Finally, in a move to stimulate the battered economy, in the fall of 2020 JR welcomed us to the club, albeit temporarily. From mid-October through February of…