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chroniclesofamiddlechild · 7 years

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NAGOYA: JAPAN DAY 10

sorry for NOT BLOGGING for the past couple of weeks.. ~GOMEN NE SAI~ but i was really dreading to write this day BECAUSE we just chilled and lived a local nagoya day. so THIS POST will be MUCH shorter than the other days but hopefully of the same quality.

so today i woke up in nagoya and we left the airbnb a little late. maybe a bit before 10 and WE WERE STARVING. but we were DETERMINED TO GET THE NAGOYA SPECIALITY: hitsumabushi!!!! so we boomed to nagoya station to the ESCA mall and it was on the basement floor. and we got there maybe around 10:30am AND PEOPLE WERE LINING UP ALREADY! the foodie culture in japan is intense~

so we waited until it opened at 11am and we got seated THANK GOD. we ordered the hitsumabushi and it was kind of expensive. around ~2500 yen to ~4000 yen. if youre wondering what hitsumabushi is, its grilled eel on rice. DUN BE CONFUSED WITH UNAGI DON because unagi don is with STEAMED eel and NOT GRILLED. similar to the wagyu beef experience, the hitsumabushi is to be eaten 3 ways. FIRST with just rice, then with the toppings and then in the ochazuke method.

i ordered the deluxe one (4000 yen) to share with my cousin. it IS DEF ENOUGH for 2. quite filling. but i honestly think i can never eat some unagi don anymore. like why have STEAMED EEL when you can have GRILLED EEL?! the texture is a lot different and much better. but IDK. if this was REALLY WORTH 4000 yen. IT was good but not that memorable of a meal. id much rather have the wagyu beef set over this. def didnt have a shokugeki experience.

after this, we boomed to nagoya castle~ we were greeted by these warriors. HONTONI KAWAII?!

lol. I DONT KNOW what is up with the floral armour, but okay.. I’LL TAKE IT. the castle was cool, but i dont really remember much. i still have all the pamphlets, but i havent had time to read through everything. the MOST MEMORABLE THING AT NAGOYA CASTLE was in the special exhibition which just showed pics of nagoya castle during the olden days. the paintings were so detailed. MUCH RESPECT. okay but the CRAZIEST THING was that they had a photograph of some development of the castle when it was being restored in the 1940s/1950s. and the photograph featured 3 kids and LEGIT. I SHIT YOU NOT. ONE OF THE KIDS LOOKED LIKE ME. JUST LIKE ME WHEN I WAS A KID. I WANTED TO TAKE A PIC BUT THERE ARE NO PHOTOGRAPHS INSIDE THE EXHIBITION. i asked my cousin if that kid looked like me, AND HE AGREED. IT LOOKED JUST LIKE ME WHEN I WAS A TODDLER. so conclusion is - i was definition a nagoya citizen in my previous life.

after nagoya castle, we walked around the park outside the castle. even though the weather was nasty, it was so nice.

around the park, there was a little boy soccer practice going on. OMG SOOO CUTE. there was one little runt and the rest of the boys were like running, looping around pylons. BUT THE LITTLE RUNT KEPT ON TRIPPING OVER THE PYLONS. SO CUUUTTEEE. i took a video from a creeper distance, BUT WILL NOT BE POSTING. pls slide into my DMs if you want it tho.

after stalking, we went to my cousin’s friend’s salon to just chill and then me and another friend just went shopping in sakae which is the DT district. we were looking for some HYPE brands i.e. BAPE and CDG. the thing about nagoya is that nagoya has EVERYTHING tokyo has but IN STOCK. in tokyo, there was a lot of things sold out but nagoya has EVERYTHING. i for one, did not make any purchases, but my friend did. *wishing i had money to buy anything and everything i wanted* :( :( :( :(

next IT WAS TIME FOR SUM DINNAAAAAA. after shopping more around sakae, WE WENT BACK TO LACHICA for dinner. we went to some sushi restaurant with the locals and HAD SOME OMAKASE SET. i didnt take some quality pics BUT IT WAS DEF A QUALITY MEAL. AND THE price was LEGIT GOOD. i think it was about ~3000 yen!

dont be fooled by the pic. we did not just have some commodity goods fish and tamago. we also had chu toro and OTORO! so yeah... nagoya CLASS!!!!~ (only btob fans would understand)

the chef was some old man but he had really pretty eyes. i didnt feel like talking during dinner, but instead i had a staring contest with the chef. pretty fun if you ask me :P

after the dinner, my cousin’s friend offered to take me to a host club! W00T!! TRUE #NIPPON EXPERIENCE. but i declined COS I WAS GOING TO OSAKA THE NEXT DAY and i had to pack! he told me that it was a REALLY GOOD HOST CLUB. i dont know if id ever go to a host club in this lifetime because im just not attracted to the guys that are hosts. like THERE IS NO HONEY SENPAI/KYOYA SENPAI in real life so WHY WOULD I GO?!?! but i think it’d be a fun experience. maybe i’ll go when i have a bit more money cos i hear host clubs can be expensive.

then we said our farewells and we headed back to the airbnb to get ready to leave nagoya the next day. twas a nice trip to see what really is in nagoya. :P but NEXT TIME IM IN NAGOYA, I GOTTA TRY SOME TEBASAKI which is just a nagoya style chicken wing!!!!! sigh... i only learned of tebasaki because of a v-live broadcast that btob did in nagoya. :(

what i learned today: that i was a citizen of nagoya in my previous life! super shocking.

high point: omakase! very VALUE AND GREAT QUALITY!

low point: looking at all the cool hype beast clothes and telling myself i cant buy it cos i shouldnt be buying these expensive things. esp when i went to the CDG BLACK STORE. :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

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