Komaki, Japan

... hit for years. A long daytrip out someplace for the sake of eating sanuki udon will have to play second fiddle. Despite Komaki's rather unhip "inaka" status, I soon discovered that I was hardly the only gaijin aware of the matsuri. The train ride up ...

... visit to Japan! Should be a really good trip! Specially seeing as it starts off with a visit to a fertility matsuri in Komaki, north of Nagoya! Nothing like checking out a fertility festival with the family! (It was the only one Sebastian could find that ...

... couldn't understand why until I saw what was before them. These weren't your grandfather's mochi (unless your grandfather is from Komaki), there bad boys were rice pounded into discs the size and shape of a large half grapefruit, hard as a hockey puck, ...

... . We also passed this cool tower on the outskirts of Ichinomiya City. Another thing I saw was a Denny's in Komaki City. Although I've been in Japan before, I've never seen a Denny's. But then again, this is my first time being in this prefecture. It ...