Hiroshima
Wednesday 21st September 2011
Went to visit Chie's grandparents in one of the suburbs of Hiroshima in the afternoon, and then went to Sushi-Tei for dinner in the evening.
Japan September 2011
John's Pictures

10:12:00
Breakfast - rice, umeboshi, miso soup, tamago yaki and some pickles.

13:51:06
Chie and her Mum making lunch.

14:00:16
Lunch - wa fu spaghetti.

16:07:58
We went to visit Chie's Grandfather, who is in hospital at the moment. Just outside the hospital there was a rice field.

16:08:06

16:08:41
This flower often grows beside rice fields.

16:08:56
Rice up close.

16:09:28

16:14:31
In another field some of the rice had already been cut and hung up to dry.

16:14:45

16:15:20

16:16:02

16:16:59
A frog.

16:23:26
A persimmon tree with a sign on it.

16:24:33
Pigs eating mochi (rice cakes).

16:24:44
Rabbits making mochi.

16:27:25
The bell in this Buddhist temple had an automated ringer.

17:52:18
Chie with her Grandmother outside Sushi-Tei.

18:05:52
Tamago (Japanese omelette) - note the rice inside.

18:06:29
Chie's Dad pouring me some sake.

18:08:52
Grilled matsutake - a highly prized Japanese mushroom, apparently now in season. I'm not sure this was a particularly great example.

18:11:54
Chie's Grandmother and Mum.

18:12:07
The three ladies.

18:21:06
Umibudou - literally "sea grapes" - a type of seaweed. Here served as a gunkan.

18:24:07
Hiroshima-na - a kind of leafy vegetable which comes from the area around Hiroshima.

18:24:15
Daikon pickled in beer.

18:29:32
My personal favourite - hawasabi temaki. Leaves from the wasabi plant, pickled.

18:59:36
Outside Sushi-Tei.

18:59:49

19:28:30
Taken on the way back.