Genuine Hiroshima Okonomiyaki
お好み焼き
Sadly, I’ve never acquired a taste for okonomiyaki; that includes the real Hiroshima (本格広島) variety. Today’s photo was taken at a summer fireworks festival two years ago this month in Inuyama.
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Hiroshima’s ramen alley
らーめん横丁 七福人 大豊
While looking for Koba, I stumbled upon this alley filled with ramen shops. I passed on them at the moment with the intent of going back if I couldn’t find Koba. However, I found Koba, ate there, and so ramen of the Seven Lucky Gods will have to wait for another trip.
50-year old teahouse
Shukkei-en’s (縮景園) Seifukan (清風館) (Japanese tea house in Hiroshima)
Everything, except for one tree, in Shukkei-en was wiped out by the atomic bomb in August of 1945. In 1964 this tea house was built in the same place and style as its predecessor that had existed from the 17th to the 20th Century.
Slyly
Hiroshima Carp mascot, Slyly
Today’s photo shows a better look at the previously described mullet / mohawk of Slyly (スラィリー). The smiles on the fans’ faces are the best parts of this image though.
Japanese baseball fans
Hiroshima Carp and Yakult Swallows fans ready for the game
Slyly, by the way, refers not to a player. Instead, Slyly is the Hiroshima Carp mascot. He looks a lot like the Phillie Phanatic, although he is a different color and has a wacky mullet/mohawk of yet another color. Slyly’s hair is not red and white like this guy’s.
Strange looking Reds game
Brad Eldred of the Hiroshima Carp
@CARP__Hiroshima
At first glance this may look like a Cincinnati Reds game. A white, right-glove guy on first in a Reds uniform conjures up visions of Sean Casey, right? But the crowd gives this one away. This game was in Hiroshima, not Cincinnati.
Eldred had a mediocre first couple of seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (.250 average and never more than 13 home runs in a season), but last year (2014) he emerged as a star. He hit .260 with 37 home runs and 104 RBIs in just 118 games. A mostly career minor leaguer, Eldred played a bit for the Pirates, Rockies, and Tigers in MLB between 2005 and 2012 before resurrecting his career in Japan last year at the age of 34.
Players in MLB will be trickling into their spring training camps over the next week or two. Preseason has already begun in Japan and preseason games will begin in less than two weeks.