Wednesday, May 16, 2007

First Pension

A lot of people have the perception that Japan is an expensive place to stay. This is actually false, and you can get around Japan on a budget if you really know where to look! One of the greatest deals in Japan are the pensions. You can consider them like a bed and breakfast but you get so much more!

The price to stay one night is in this particular pension was $70. This includes the room, Dinner, Breakfast, and usually Taxi service to and from the train station!

Below is a photo of the first pension we stayed at.


Dinner is a multi-course french-japanese style meal. The first course that we had was salmon sashimi and prosciutto ham salad:

The next course was soup! It doesn't look like much but it was extremely tasty actually. I was surprised!

The next course is a pan-fried fish dish! As with all the seafood I had in Japan it was fresh and delicious!

The main course is unlimited rice, and steak from the local cattle:

Polish it off with a Jelly dessert in a cream sauce with mint and berries:

In the morning we get treated to breakfast! This is more american style with Scrambled Eggs, Ham, Hash Browns, Salad, Fruit, Orange Juice, Tea, and Bread!

So you get all of that, for the low price of $70.00 per night! Try to find that anywhere in the U.S. I have to say that the dinner alone is probably worth at least half the cost!

10 comments:

Jane Doe said...

I shouldn't have read your blog right now...I am starving and a lot of that looked yummy...except of course the stuff I don't eat, beef & pork.

And that IS on heck of a meal!

Jane Doe said...

And one heck of a deal, for that matter!

Anonymous said...

That food does look delish!!! You're right, $70 is a deal plus all that food!! YUM!

Whine Girl said...

what is that blue thing on the plate? a wad of gum? it's on all the plates.

i ran my cursor over the pics.. NO captions. cindy has us spoiled.

i want pics of where you boys slept.. and what you slept in

Ano the Blogger said...

Hey 'nessa -- Awwe oops! Sorry to make you hungry :) There's going to be a lot of pictures of food haha.

It was a fantastic meal! All the places we stayed at had fantastic meals!

Jordan the blue symbol is painted onto the plate. It is the name of the pension. You can click the photo for a closer look :). I dont know how to put captions on blogger! Can I?

And weren't the pictures I sent you earlier enough??? You know, the ones you were trying to blackmail me with!!!! Bad Jordan.

Anonymous said...

There are pictures out there the rest of us aren't getting to see??????????

Whine Girl said...

flat: you can't see *those* pics... seriously, you're Bat would get mad.

James, stop telling people about your special pics you sent me... now everyone will want to see

Whine Girl said...

the word "boyfriend" was supposed to be between you're and bat

Whine Girl said...

but then you're is wrong anyway... I meant YOUR...

sip sip sip....

and to think this is only wine

Ano the Blogger said...

LOL.

You know i would love to see what Jordan is like when she's REALLY drunk.

So when are you coming to visit!?!

And you were the one that let the cat out of the bag with the pictures! You're supposed to keep them a Seeeecreet!!! SHHHHHHhhhh!!!!! Geez.. I kept the ones you sent me secret!

oops.