Japan

Trip Date: January 2019

Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Fukuoka (2 weeks)

I spent the entire 2018 in Asia. The first three months were spent backpacking Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) and I eventually settled in South Korea for the next nine months, part of which I spent working as a software developer at a startup in Seoul.

There's a lot to reflect on my time in Asia but more to come on that. These are just photos from my time in Japan before coming back to the States.

Japan is one of the cleanest place I've ever been to. And if I had to eat one cuisine for the rest of my life besides Korean it would be Japanese hands down.

View from Tokyo City Hall

Gate

Nara deer

Fushimi Inari Shrine

Pond view

Street style

Asakusa at night

so pretty at night

Kaminarimon

Lanterns

Fukuoka canals

Onsen: took a day trip from fukuoka to a nearby hot springs. So relaxing. Must try. I went here

Post spa yogurt

Food

Unagi Don

Tendon

Crepe

Some dipping ramen

Katsudon

Tsukemen: Really really good. must eat. Ginjo Ramen (kyoto)

Handmade soba with mackerel: Wow. Highly recommend trying handmade soba. I could eat this every day. Forgot to save the name of the place :(

Omurice

Curry

Okonomiyaki: osaka represent

Bar food: ventured out to a crazy busy hole-in-the-wall bar in kyoto. i obviously couldn't read the menu so i ordered by just pointing at what other people were eating. felt so brave yet so dumb lol. i came here two days in a row at odd hours (3pm) and both times it was super crowded. I was pleasantly surprised by the cured mackerel (even better with beer of course). Stand Bar Shomin (kyoto)

yep literal hole-in-the-wall: Stand Bar Shomin (kyoto)

Chicken nanban: wtf!! this was so good. fried chicken with this creamy sauce. might be my favorite thing i ate on this trip. must eat. Bomber kitchen (fukuoka)

I will be back.