While only a few hours from Tokyo, Kyoto has its own forms of cuisine that we wanted to sample while visiting and there were a still some holdouts from our Tokyo list that we wanted to try, such as yakitori. Here’s what we ate in Kyoto: Gion Namba: Top of our Kyoto list was a…
Last month, we were lucky to spend two days in beautiful Kyoto after spending three days in Tokyo. This traditional Japanese city really honors Japan’s past and revolves around the thousands of shrines and temples built eons ago. I expected to love Kyoto when we visited, but I was truly blown away by how amazing…
Before we went to Japan, we made a really methodical list of every type of food we wanted to tackle while there. It obviously included sushi, but was much broader than that, encompassing soba, ramen, tonkatsu, yakitori and other types of cuisine that we wanted to be sure to have, even if it was just…
Tokyo is such an amazing and dynamic city that has so many fun spots to explore. We were recently in Tokyo for three days and three nights and because it was my first time in Japan, I wanted to maximize our time and get to see all of the highlights and bucket list types of…
I recently had a surreal vacation where I got to travel around Asia for two weeks (my first time on the continent!) and the trip started in Tokyo. This is the first of more than a dozen travel guides we have planned on where to stay, what to do, what to eat, etc. so be…
I’ve been loving the silhouette of structured sweaters with dramatic sleeves. Thinks extended bells and ruffles and other touches that really step up any sweater-jean combination. Here are some of our favorite sweaters with fancy sleeves: Confession time: I just ordered this sweater from Storets in two colors. Absolutely love everything about it. And, it’s…
