Lunch @ Ohachi

This is something about yesterday.

I was off from work, so I saw my boyfriend in Shibuya after the hula class to have lunch together. He had an idea to take me to a restaurant, but he forgot where it was, so we just happened to enter the restaurant called "Ohachi".





They serve healthy homestyle dishes. What I had was white fish fries and vegetables simmered in thick dashi broth. It comes with white rice, but you can change it to 16 cereal rice, which is cool! You know I love healthy food :)

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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Hi! On Saturday my boyfriend and I went shopping and movies to Shin Yurigaoka after my recipe work. We happened to see our GYM demo, introducing hula class! (top right image) The weather was still nice and warm like summer, so we enjoyed beer at open-air cafe in the afternoon, before the movies ;)

We saw The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.
"Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime."
The story was interesting. It is not only the action scenes but pictures the human heart. We of course enjoyed sceneries in NY, where I met my boyfriend. He-he. Romantic right?! :D

Late at night, we had dinner at Kyomachiya. We enjoyed autumn menu. Saury is in season, so we enjoyed saury sashimi. I think it has been 2 years since we last went there.

Today I'm taking a day off because I worked last Saturday! This afternoon, I'm gonna attend the last hula class for this term. We are going to learn new choreography from October. Then gonna have lunch with my bf in Shibuya ;)

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Kyoto

The next day, we left Hikone and went to Kyoto.

Over a finite period of time, we went to see Kiyomizu-Dera (Kiyomizu Temple), Kinkaku-Ji (The Gold Pavilion), and Ryoan-Ji (Ryoanji Temple).

Kiyomizu-Dera (清水寺) is an independent Buddhist temple in eastern Kyoto. It stands in the wooded hills and offers visitors a nice view over the city from its famous wooden terrace. Behind the temple, there is a shrine called "Jishu-Jinja". The shrine dedicated to the deity of love. We took a pic in front of the entrance and bought love charms together ;)

Along the route to Kiyomizu-Dera, there are many shops and restaurants. My boyfriend found a cool lunch menu, which is called "Enmusubi Soba set", which means good luck and marriage soba set! Of course we had it for our lunch.





Kinkaku-Ji (金閣寺) or formally Rokuon-ji (鹿苑寺) is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto. It takes 30 minutes by bus from Kiyomizu-Dera. The admission ticket looks like a bill. The bottom right image is the Sekka-Tei tea house. The upper left mountain is called Daimonji. The kanji "大" that means large is written on Nyoigatake (Daimonji Mountain).

Ryoan-Ji (龍安寺), the temple of the peaceful dragon, is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto. The temple is famous for Sekitei (石庭), the Rock Garden. The garden consists of fifteen rocks. When looking at the garden from any angle (other than from above) only fourteen of them are visible at one time. It is traditionally said that only through attaining enlightenment would one be able to view fifteen. We had a relaxing moment in the garden.

Before we leave Kyoto, we had a dinner at a restaurant by a river called Kamogawa. My boyfriend found a romantic open-air restaurant called Suigetsu. There was a nice, gentle breeze blowing at that night. We enjoyed Kyoto cuisine and went back to Tokyo.


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