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Explore Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, with Kokoro Care Packages

Post brought to you in partnership with Kokoro Care Packages. I have a special place in my heart for Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan (the prefecture located just south of Tokyo), so when Kokoro Care Packages reached out to me to see if I would be interested in partnering with them to highlight their November 2020 […]

March 3rd is Hinamatsuri in Japan. Hinamatsuri (Girl’s Festival or Doll Festival), is a celebration dedicated to girls, in which their parents pray for the good health and happiness of their daughters. This is one of my favorite Japanese celebrations, naturally, being the mother of three girls!

A company called Kokoro Care Packages reached out to me recently to introduce themselves, and now I’m a bit obsessed! Kokoro Care Packages is a subscription box business that curates high-quality, natural Japanese food items from local producers in Japan. They hope to share the flavors of authentic Japanese food, the Japanese philosophies behind eating […]

Today I’m sharing a video about my last 24-hours in Tokyo at the end of September this year, specifically my adventures with my friend Noriko to find some delicious food to till our bellies with. Our best meal, actually one of my favorite meals of 2017, was at Hidamari Cafe, a little macrobiotic restaurant in […]

Sponsored by the JNTO (Japan National Tourism Organization). Hakodate, Japan Like all of the places we visited on this trip, I kept wishing I had weeks more time in Hakodate because we only had time to scratch the surface on everything that there was to see and do (and eat!). We caught a shinkansen (a bullet […]

Sponsored by the JNTO (Japan National Tourism Organization). Hachinohe, Japan Before leaving Aomori Prefecture, we made a quick stop in Hachinohe, Japan. Hachinohe is the second largest city in Aomori Prefecture and sits on the southeast coast of Aomori Prefecture, facing the Pacific Ocean. Hachinohe was one of the cities hit by the March 2011 tsunami, which […]

Sponsored by the JNTO (Japan National Tourism Organization). Towada, Japan The next stop on my Japan adventure was to the city of Towada which sits in the foothills of the Hakkoda mountains in Aomori Prefecture. The city includes part of the Towada-Hachimantai National Park, one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. First stop on […]

I returned a couple of weeks ago from a dream trip to Japan, sponsored by the JNTO (Japan National Tourism Organization). You all know that Japan is my happy place, so to be asked to go and explore a new (to me) part of Japan so that I could share it with you? Yes please, […]

The Japanese do incredible things with fruits and vegetables. From braising to deep frying, and drying to pickling, there are hundreds of ways to use and transform a wide variety of plants. A particular favorite at our house are umeboshi, Japanese pickled plums (usually translated as plum, though they are actually made from a species […]

Last April during our most recent visit to Japan, we took a side trip with some friends to Ikaho, a small town several hours northwest of Tokyo known for its hot springs. For dinner one evening we ate a kaiseki meal, a traditional multi-course Japanese dinner. It was spring, and every morsel of food spoke […]

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Explore Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, with Kokoro Care Packages

Hinamatsuri (Girl’s Day) 2020

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Exploring Hakodate, Japan

Exploring Hachinohe, Japan

Exploring the Oirase Gorge & Lake Towada, Japan

Exploring Aomori, Japan

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