On June 20th I went to Okazaki (a city a ways outside of Nagoya) with a friend of mine, Yousuke. He wanted to show me some interesting things about traditional Japanese culture so we went to the Hatcho Miso Factory. It was actually pretty interesting! Plus, we got to try two different kinds of miso at the end of the tour. We also had miso udon before the tour started, which was delicious.
After the fun at the factory we went to Okazaki Castle and the Tokugawa Ieyasu museum. In case you didn’t know, Tokugawa Ieyasu was kind of a big deal.� :-)� He became shogun in the early 1600s and the Tokugawa shogunate ruled Japan for about 250 years!!� Okazaki was his hometown. The museum was really cool and thanks to Yousuke’s translations I could actually understand a lot of the information since just about everything was only in Japanese.
There are also some pretty grounds around the castle and sure enough, there was an interesting Japanese sign waiting for me to take a picture of it…
