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Orange Railway and Kagoshima 2026: All Posts
#0 Index
Eight days in Kagoshima Prefecture along the Hisatsu Orange Railway: samurai streets in Izumi, the sea at Akune, quiet Satsumasendai, and Tenmonkan nights.
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Lunch at a 350-Year-Old Ryotei
#38 Tsubajin
Tsubajin, Kanazawa’s oldest ryotei, serves crab congee and seasonal dishes over a Saigawa river view. Notes on the 350-year history, lunch, and booking.
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Street Scenes: Rainy Toyama, Half a Day on Foot
#37 Toyama Streets
Wandering rainy Toyama on foot in photos — trams, wide grid streets, and the calm, lived-in feel of this city near Kanazawa, just 20 minutes from it by Shinkansen.
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Yakiniku to Restore My Energy
#36 Toyama Sodachi
Toyama Sodachi, right by Toyama Station, serves Toyama Wagyu karubi and kimchi at surprisingly low prices — a full meal, drink included, came to just 4,600 yen.
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The Starbucks They Call the World’s Most Beautiful
#35 Starbucks Kansui Park
Is the Kansui Park Starbucks in Toyama really the world’s most beautiful? A rainy-night visit to the glass store by the canal, and the view from outside.
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Museum of Literature and Its Striking Cantilever
#34 Koshinokuni Museum of Literature
Wandering Toyama’s backstreets in the rain to Koshinokuni Museum of Literature, where a huge sleek cantilever defines the CAn-designed home of Toyama writers.
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Kengo Kuma’s Toyama Kirari — The Interior Won Me Over, Not the Facade
#33 TOYAMA KIRARI
Kengo Kuma’s Toyama Kirari houses the Toyama Glass Art Museum and city library. The facade underwhelms, but the open, cedar-lined interior is worth the visit.
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Twenty Minutes from Kanazawa: Toyama, the Prefectural Capital
#32 Getting to Toyama
Getting from Kanazawa to Toyama by train, riding the city tram to the Glass Art Museum and Koshinokuni Museum, then Kansui Park in the rain at night.
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