Shopkeeper's blog — sightseeing

Hi, there. I am sorry that I haven't updated our blog for so long time. Here I would like to update our blogs and share with all. At the end of October, I went to the suburb of Gifu prefecture with my famility to have a lunch of Ayu fish.  Ayu（鮎, あゆ） is a kind of freshwater fish, also is called sweetfish. The fish is very delicious and is't fishy and stinky. In Japan, Autumn is a season to enjoy eating the fish and my wife wanted to eat the fish. So we visited the restaurant which served the lunch with Ayu...

Hi, there. I had a small travel to Tsuruga-city（敦賀市、つるがし）, Fukui prefecture（福井県、ふくいけん）with my sons together. Tsuruga was known as a trading port accessing to mainland China in ancient age. We first went to the beach named ”Kehi no matsubara” (気比の松原、けひのまつばら). This site is the one of "Big 3 pine beaches in Japan", literally kehi no matsubara has pine forest along its beach. In this year it was still hot even in the middle of October, so I watched those who were swimming in the beach.    Second, we visited the ruin of "Kanagasaki castle"（金ケ崎城、かながさきじょう）. Kanagasaki castle was built in 14th century,...

Hi, there. Yesterday it was my 2nd son's birthday for 5 years old. And I took my three sons to Lego land which is located in Nagoya city, Aichi prefecture with my wife. As on 30th September, the state of the emergency finished. So we were satisfied a bit. However, Lego land makes restriction for the entry and Only people from the three Tokai prefectures (Aichi, Gifu and Mie) were able to enter with priority. We expected that there would be a crowd in the amusement park, but there were not so many visitors there. Anyway, it was good that my...

Hi, there. Yesterday 23rd September was "Respect-for-the-Aged Day (敬老の日, keirou-no-hi )" in Japan. Also, it was a national holiday. So I went to Mt. Kinkazan (金華山, きんかざん) in Gifu city, Gifu prefecture with my family together. This mountain was originally called "Inabayama（稲葉山, いなばやま）". And the top of this mountain had an impregnable castle named "Inabayama Jo (稲葉山城, いなばやまじょう)" at Sengoku period (A.D 1467~ 1603).   It is said that this castle was built in 1201, at Sengoku period of 16th century the local samurai lord Dozan Saito (斎藤道山, さいとうどうざん) started to renovate the castle extensively.    But his daughter's husband Nobunaga Oda...