You may remember my hijinks a while back when Trisna and I attempted to go see Mt. Fuji and the weather did everything in its power to prevent us from enjoying it. I decided to try it again, because I still have exactly zero pictures of Mt. Fuji. I decided last Friday that I would [...]
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Hiroshima, Miyajima
Let’s address the elephant in the room right away. Hiroshima is not famous because of its okonomiyaki. You’ve heard about it because it became the first victim of nuclear warfare on August 6, 1945. Did I mention that it was my country that dropped the bomb? A number of people talked to me before summer [...]
Posted by admin on September 1, 2009
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Nara, Himeji
It was a given that I would have to take advantage of this summer vacation somehow. A total of 9 days free, 4 days left on my Seishun 18 ticket, and an entire country to carve my way through. It was a priority to carve a gash as far down the island as I could. [...]
Posted by admin on August 30, 2009
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Enoshima & Kamakura trip pt. 2
Breakfast was scheduled for 8:00, but if we felt so inclined, we could meet at the entrance to the ryokan at 7:00 and go hang out at the beach for a while. I felt so inclined, because waking up after 6:30 would be way sleeping in for me. So a number of us walked back [...]
Posted by admin on August 19, 2009
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Enoshima & Kamakura trip pt. 1
On Thursday we were given a packet of papers that laid out the schedule of the upcoming Kamakura trip. We would arrive at the school by 8:30 am on Saturday, have a lecture in the morning and then head toward the train station at noon. Tanaka-san went over some guidelines and made some suggestions of [...]
Posted by admin on August 18, 2009
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