There are several main things about Japan that are entirely different from the United States that took some time getting use to. First of all was the cash. It wasn’t hard to convert the currency …

Today was a do whatever we wanted in Osaka before we had one last dinner with the group (cue sad violin music). I don’t think I mentioned this before but my best friend and I …

Mount Koya, while beautiful, was kind of hard to sleep on the tatami. I woke up with a really bad back ache and was really happy we weren’t staying more than one night. The monks …

We traveled to our next destination, Mount Koya, by going through Nara first. In Nara, we took a quick tour of the first permanent capital in Japan. Mostly Nara is known for its deer as …

Today was a bit of a day to recuperate. We slept in until 7am and didn’t leave the hotel until past 9am. The only place we visited today was Arashiyama, the Bamboo Path. My friend …

Kyoto We all woke up at 5.30am so that we could at least grab breakfast before leaving our hotel and heading towards Kyoto. We got on another shikansen for about an hour before we arrived …

Hiroshima I noticed this while we were in Tokyo as well as here in Hiroshima. But I always wondered in manga, when it started raining, why they would stay beneath eaves or just wait until …

Today didn’t start out super well considering I woke up at midnight and couldn’t go back to sleep because my roommate was snoring loudly. I’m a pretty light sleeper so most noises wake me up …

I really didn’t do very much today. After breakfast a group of us went to a mall called Sunshine City where we went to the Mega Pokemon store to grab some souvenirs for our friends …

I know I said I’d do this on Tumblr, but for some reason, Japan and Tumblr are not getting along for me. Day one in Tokyo was pretty short. We got into the airport at …