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title: Nekonote Pan Kojo
url: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/nekonote-pan-kojo/
lang: en
journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/onomichi-1/
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# Nekonote Pan Kojo

Places we stopped along the way　/　Onomichi, Hiroshima

A tiny bakery in a renovated old house, tucked into a maze of alleys where cars cannot enter. It was closed on the day I visited; a poster in the window advertised Nekonote Panya, a picture book modeled on this shop.

7-7 Higashi-Tsuchido-cho, Onomichi, Hiroshima

## This moment in the journey: The bakery with the intriguing name

Maybe I'll buy lunch at the bakery with the intriguing name. Up an alley of white walls, I found a poster for a picture book, Nekonote Panya, in the shop window: a story set in a real bakery in Onomichi. But the shop I was looking for turned out to be closed that day.

Even so, the sea glittered at the bottom of the cobbled slope, and on the street stood the red sign of a ramen shop, Marubosi. I am enjoying every bit of life in Onomichi.

![A poster for the picture book Nekonote Panya in the shop window](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/onomichi-1/s95-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://www.ononavi.jp/eating/sweets/detail.html?detail_id=804

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/onomichi-1/