It’s just so easy to use Google Maps to find good places to eat these days. One literally just searches ‘good food near me’, and you’d get a number of dining establishments show up on Maps right away. That’s basically how we found Sogawa Base, a contemporary foodcourt that’s near the Toyama Glass Art Museum. The foodcourt has a number of individual stalls that offer a wide variety of cuisine: including Japanese pizza, South Indian, and pastas. We settled for Indian, even though we just had fabulous Indian at Aashirwad @ Naga-machi two days earlier. And what followed was a mountain of food that we struggled to finish:
The naan sets isn’t anything like what we get at home: the naans are much bigger, and the curry servings are more generous. A single naan set like these is more than enough to feed an adult. And the dining staff came to check on us a few times: imagine, a shared dinning place which does that!
Lunch settled, we continued onward to make our way to Kansui Park, and the popular Starbucks joint there.
The Starbucks cafe sits in its own small building that overlooks the pond. It looks mighty impressive in pictures, but those were taken in summer. In winter, it’s harder to make out the distinctive features of the park. The cafe offers outdoor seating, and it was oh-so-romantic for the wife and myself to sip our Matcha lattes before we ducked back inside as it got quite cold on the outside!
We decided to give the last place a miss – the Toyama Tower Observatory – as we were mindful we wanted to return to Kanazawa to pack for the last segment of our trip: relocation to Takayama.