At the end of July I discovered that one of my favourite YouTubers Chris Broad of ‘Abroad In Japan‘ fame was doing a weekly podcast of the same name with Absolute Radio DJ Pete Donaldson. After one episode I was instantly hooked and worked my way through the complete back catalogue of podcasts which is perhaps surprising as someone like me is probably not the target audience for such a podcast.
One episode that really caught my interest was about an itinerary for travelling around the northern region of Japan which is where Broad is based. Most tourists tend to stick to the common Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka-Hiroshima route whilst only 1% of them venture to the area known as Tohoku.
This really opened up my eyes to a part of Japan I had always been pretty ignorant about. My original plan was to just go up to Koriyama to see the places which featured in ‘A Trio of Top Sights in The Aizu-Wakamatsu Region‘ but after hearing about all these places in Tohoku I decided to continue further north and experience a few more sights highlighted by Broad. They included some places in Hiraizumi, Morioka and Hirosaki which have been covered in previous posts.
It was nearly 9pm when I finally arrived at Aomori Station and I raced off straight away to an overly popular local restaurant called Aji no Sapporo Onishi which is famed for its miso milk curry ramen (830 yen). It closes at 9:30 pm so there wasn’t that much time to spare when I got there. As expected, it was full but I didn’t have to wait too long to be allocated a seat.
This particular ramen was absolutely fantastic and if I’d known that I Continue reading →
