I almost thought I was cheating with this one for a while, mainly because it took me a while to fathom what the 有田 part of the equation was. My dictionary was mostly throwing out pottery, which didn’t seem quite right.

Of course, that’s mostly because I have a habit of forgetting that Japanese tends to be read right-to-left when written vertically, and as such it’s actually “Arita Mikan”, Arita referring to the local in which the mikan in question were farmed. I should really bare in mind that dictionaries don’t generally list place names, but frankly, at this point I should really know better.

Oh, just rub it in why don’t you, Miyako.

Hmmm, there’s not really a huge amount for me to say about Hidamari. It’s thoroughly charming and pleasant and nice and generally rather great.