Design Delights

Some cute salt and pepper shakers from the 100 Yen store

Yakiniku

A new yakiniku restaurant has opened down on the main road. Yakiniku is where you get a bunch of different cuts of meat and vegetables to grill on a burner at your table. The restaurant is called Ten-Mei, and the kanji mean 'sky' and 'life'. It was quite stylish, and above are the business card, embossed chopsticks wrapper and matchbox we souvenired. 

Olive Mania

We visited Shodoshima, an island in the Seto Inland Sea, southwest of Himeji. The island is supposedly famous for its olives. A few small olive groves are dotted around the coast. Most of the olives are found in the souvenir stores. We found all of those shown below (the last one is olive jelly), along with olive chocolate and olive candy.