Celebrating our Anniversary at Kurochaya

On November 22, Peter and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary!  To celebrate, we went out to a nice 9 course meal at Kurochaya, or Black Tea House.  It was amazing!  The restaurant is made up of a bunch of old fashioned looking buildings, is set in the mountains along a river, and is lit by lanterns in the trees.  It's a really beautiful setting.  

The food was very Japanese, but specific to the area, with the fish and crabs having been caught from the river that runs next to the restaurant, the udon made at the restaurant, and the vegetables grown there as well.  We had a great night, made even more enjoyable by the delicious food and ambiance.

GPS Coordinates:  35.726035, 139.210021

Viking Tabehoudai

Back in November, for Peter's and my 6th anniversary we went to a really classy restaurant . . . the Viking Tabehoudai.  Which, in English, is an all-you-can-eat restaurant!  See, classy, right???  Ha ha, not at all, but it was so good and such a fun night!

Peter has such fond memories of being a missionary and going with other missionaries and stuffing their faces at tabehoudais, and he's been wanting to find a good one since we moved here.  Then, I actually kept hearing about Viking and that is was indeed good food and worth the experience.  So . . . when our anniversary rolled around and we didn't have any plans for dinner, I suggested that we try Viking out.  And, it did not disappoint!

It definitely wasn't the fanciest anniversary dinner we've ever had, but it was a lot of fun and THEY HAD A COTTON CANDY MACHINE.  I mean, what could be better????

GPS Coordinates:

35.812549, 139.377166