Emma Goto

Next on my list of coffee spots to try in Hakodate was Tailored Coffee.

While up in Hakodate, I went on a quest to find its best coffee.

Mt Hakodate (函館山, hakodate-yama) is a 334m mountain that overlooks the city of Hakodate in Hokkaido.

If there’s one thing that comes to mind for me when I think of Hakodate, it has to be the Goryokaku, a star-shaped fort that was completed in 1866.

Mt Yotei (羊蹄山, yotei-zan) is the Hokkaido equivalent to Mt Fuji - its conical shape and the dusting of snow it gets each winter makes it look strikingly similar.

Heading west towards Mt Yotei, we passed by a local peak called Mt Usu (有珠山, usu-zan) that we decided to check out.

Mt Poroshiri (幌尻岳, poroshiri-dake) is a 2052m elevation mountain near the town of Biratori in Hokkaido.

Book review for The Restaurant of Many Orders by Kenji Miyazawa.

Book review for The Ainu Wolf Carving by Kayano Shigeru.

Book review for Middlemarch by George Eliot.

August felt like such a whirlwind.

Akha Ama Coffeee is a cozy cafe specialising in beans from Thailand.

Coffee Valley is a small specialty coffee store only a short walk from Ikebukuro station.

Coffee Journey & Bake is a cozy little cafe only a 2 minute walk from Takadanobaba station.

Phase 1 - four widgets The initial dashboard came with 4 widgets - Currently Reading, Goals, Feed and Stats.

This summer, I decided to try growing cherry tomatoes on my balcony!

Book review for The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K.

Book review for Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.

Book review for Hillbilly Elegy by J.

Book review for Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb.