We enjoyed a delicate full course meal featuring local ingredients from Higashi-Mikawa at "aru," a French restaurant in Toyohashi, to celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary.

Since opening on December 27, 2017, on the second floor of a multi-tenant building in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, the French restaurant "aru" has quickly made a name for itself and grown into one of the most popular restaurants representing the Higashi-Mikawa area. We visited "aru" to celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary, our "Steel Anniversary"...

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"Toriichi Meat Shop," a butcher shop with 80 years of history, raises its special brand of duck, "Aichi Duck," which is absolutely delicious!

We visited Toriichi Meat Shop, a long-established butcher shop in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, with over 80 years of history! This butcher shop specializes in delicious, safe, and secure domestic meats, including their own brand of duck, "Aichi Duck," as well as beef, pork, chicken, and wild boar. They handle only carefully selected ingredients! [Storefront...].

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Enjoy a rice bowl lunch featuring ingredients from Tahara City at "Grill Hana," part of the Atsumi Peninsula Donburi Road.

Blessed with abundant seafood from the Enshu Sea and Mikawa Bay, and renowned as an agricultural region, the Atsumi Peninsula is a treasure trove of ingredients throughout the seasons. Participating in the "Atsumi Peninsula Donburi Kaido" event, where various donburi (rice bowl) dishes utilizing these local ingredients can be enjoyed at each participating restaurant, is Atsumi Peninsula Donburi...

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"Toyohashi Sushi Mantaro": Enjoy the bounty of Mikawa Bay with carefully selected sake and sushi handcrafted by a sophisticated chef.

We had dinner at "Mantaro Sushi," located on a street corner in a residential area not far from Aichi University Station in Toyohashi! This sushi restaurant was opened 43 years ago, on September 1, 1975, by the owner, Akihiro Takemoto, and his wife, Yaeko. Currently, his son, Okura (D...), who trained in Tokyo, runs the restaurant.

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