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In reply to the discussion: So, yeah... I've started trying to learn some Japanese [View all]EastMeetsWest
(191 posts)37. These days, it seems like there are basically two okonomiyaki "styles",
at least here in the Kanto (Tokyo) region-- Osaka style (大阪風 and Hiroshima style (広島風 .
It's been so long since I've been to Kyoto (more than 20 years) that I'll have to look up the geographical references you mentioned. I still remember how to get to the 修学院 and 東山 districts of Kyoto, as well as 山科, which is on the Kyoto side of the Kyoto-Shiga prefectural boundary (大津--Ohtsu is on the Shiga side, by 琵琶湖-- Lake Biwa)
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I learned Japanese in the 1980s and although I have been back several times in the last few years,
HUAJIAO
Jan 2022
#23
Well, I know some dynamite restaurants in Kyoto that are NOT on the tourist lists,
HUAJIAO
Jan 2022
#29
It's too bad our savantic ability to naturally acquire languages pretty much dries up at puberty.
PSPS
Nov 2021
#8
I've got a friend from a tiny Midwest town who became a Japanese interpreter.
Midnight Writer
Nov 2021
#13