Departure at 5:00 a.m., Bullet Initial D Tour
Ibaraki - Ikaho - Lake Haruna - Kita-Karuizawa - Usui Pass - Mt Myogi - Shimonita - Ibaraki
Total just under 500 km, 11.5 hours 🤣.
Gunma love ❤️ oh no initial D love ❤️
Oh no, I ran....my body is so beat up! Too cold in the morning and evening, so it's a bit of a shrinkage there: ☝️
We bought sake and green onions at the roadside station Shimonita, so we launched 🚀.
The taste is a little sweet and refreshing, and the aftertaste is dry.
I'd be happy if they serve it in Machinuka. ......
I'm not Takuzo Kakuno!
It has a very nostalgic and gentle taste, and each one is carefully prepared one by one: ......
I'm not Aunt Stella!
Aside from the sake, the grilled Shimonita leeks are seriously good!
I roasted them whole in a frying pan in a proper way in the midst of my body cracking up. 👨🍳 It has a sweetness, a flavor like a fava bean, and a peculiar taste!
I'm curious to see the recipe of your partner who loves to cook this. ......
I ain't no Cayenne Amano!
Come to think of it, she's been very successful as a singer/songwriter lately: ......
It's not Vaundy!
Please don't lose your temper so quickly. ......
I'm not Takeyama!
To begin with, this sake is Haruna, not Haruna. ❗️❗️
Sake on a motorcycle is a good idea!
Haruna is a fun course for touring and I fondly remember the old days when I used to ride there. I hope you will report back on your motorcycle sake tasting!
Good evening, Mr. Manachy 🌛.
Even if the weather is good, it's still cold and crisp for touring this time of year 🥶.
As a cyclist myself, it's time to start off-season maintenance 🚴.
I can't come up with a good blur!
Good morning, Mr. Kuu! Are you a former motorcycle rider? ☺️ There are a lot of return riders nowadays 🤣⁉️It's fun to go out on a motorcycle and buy sake.
Good morning, Mr. Matchi 🌞It's freezing without outerwear 🥶The number of popular brands of Gunma sake has been increasing recently, and it's nice ❗️ I can only think of Ikaho and Kusatsu for sightseeing 🤣.
Kouzou, good morning ☀w800.................................................I am seriously glad the weather was nice, I would have cried if it rained🤣.
I'm so glad you enjoyed reading this!
Good evening Pon-chan🌇I haven't been able to ride at all, so I'm rather stressed if I don't do this much🤣I'm back on the highway with my leeks sticking out of my touring bag❗️
Good morning, Manachie 😃.
It was indeed a bullet 🏍️ in almost half a day! We also had a nice drive 🚙 around Matsuida Myogi where we used to work on the way back from our trip to Nagano the other day 😊I hope you will be back to work normally until the end of the year after refreshing yourselves😇.
Takasaki's chicken rice lunch box and Mt. Haruna
The spiciness coming to the back of the throat is a nice sensation. But overall, it is easy to drink although the taste is strong. It goes well with chicken rice as well.
Gunma's sake is delicious 😋.
This sake is refreshing
It goes down your throat nicely.
But it also has umami!
The umami is as good as the robust flavor of the famous Touge no Kamameshi (rice cooked in a pot)
It's a perfect match!
Hello, Manachie!
I wanted to go to Omae station!
Actually, it would have been great if we could have gone to the hot spring ♨️ afterwards...
I just enjoyed the scenery and the travel 😄.
Souvenir from Okan who was in Kusatsu Onsen this month🍶.
No way, it was a Gunma-chan label from Harunasan.
I bought myself a cup of Harunayama Gunma-chan on my trip to Kanto in August, so it seems that father and son have the same criteria for choice 😅.
I feel like I say this a lot, but label design is important ✨.
The aroma is mild.
It is sweet with little bitterness or sourness, still easy to drink 😊.
Good evening, soumacho 🦉.
I've seen the label in a close-up before, but I don't remember what it was 😆 It's Gunma-chan 😻I would definitely buy it if I saw it ❣️ It's so cute 😻The label is really important 😊.
Good evening, Pon 😃.
The one-cup was the whole picture, so the do-up of the face might be hard to recognize.
But that's good 😙.
It's as sweet as it looks and we are having it tonight 😊.
Mt. Haruna in Kura, famous for its large sake cups and macho. It is the sacred place of Initial D.
So I drank it up as fast as I could, making full use of cornering with the gutter. It was quirky and in a way, uncharacteristic. Fujiwara Tofu Store feels like they use good water.
I cheered for the preliminary round of the Hakone Ekiden in Tachikawa. The speed of the foreign athletes scared me. I was itching to go for a trek on Mt. Takao when I saw them running. Takao, but I couldn't run, so I walked up the mountain. I didn't use the monorail, just in case. It is crowded on weekends and it is hard to walk.
In Maebashi city while traveling from Kanto to Niigata 🚗.
Yes, I bought a packet.
When I see a character cup of sake, I can't resist 💦.
It's important to motivate users to buy 😙.
15% alcohol by volume
Sweet and tasty. Closes cah and slightly dry.
It has little bitterness and is very easy to drink.
It is also good with sashimi👍.
Good evening, Jyunichi 😃.
Thanks for your comment.
It's a good kick to get in touch with that brand and I'm steadily adding more cups of the character 😅.
It's for food sake, but it was easy to drink among cups of sake.
Mt. Haruna in a cup of sake. Harunasan, a model of Mt. Akina that the tofu shop's Hachiroku runs through. The label also looks like a local sake. I have fond memories of visiting Harunayama with my wife many years ago before we were married.
It has a strong alcoholic aroma, which is typical of honjozo sake. This is a royal roadside honjozo sake that is easy to enjoy and has no peculiarities. Oh my, this is a good sake. I've only had Gunma Izumi sake in Gunma, but this is really good. I guess the main sake is called "Ohai" (大盃). I'll keep that in mind.