A short trip for a little Edo

How did you spend the New Year holiday? Until tomorrow maybe people will be returning to Tokyo from their parents homes or their hometowns. The Highways have become a kind of long parking lot :-p. When I watch the news, I am glad to have been born in Tokyo. I do not need to KISEI, or go back to a hometown and return to Tokyo.

Anyway I went to Kawagoe today, it is the small city called a little EDO. It takes about only 40 minutes or so from Shinjuku, the Center of Tokyo. Then you can sense as if you got a short trip. They have a street where you can enjoy many old warehouses (kura), and a small alley where they sell old-fashioned Japanese junk sweets.

And Kawagoe is famous for sweet potatoes, so you may try some sweet potato treats. I ate omanjyu, that’s cut potatoes! No sugar and no butter just cut potato but sweet enough and delicious! Sweet potetos Yokan (Sweet potato paste) would be nice too.

Comments

[Huang]

I must go there when I'm in Tokyo (hopefully this April).
Somehow Japanese sweet potatoes are the sweetest !

[Claire （クレア）]

いもよかんといもきんが似ているですか。I had never seen "imokin" before, but had it at the Shinnosai matsuri in Osaka in November. 本当においしかったです。

[abraxis]

That looks neat! Next time I'm in Tokyo, I'll try to visit.

It's funny how the cheapest way there is the fastest.