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Okinawa Slideshow
Okinawa
Travel Blogs from Okinawa, Japan
Shinto Wedding Ceremony & Pottery
Hi Everyone, Today our team visited one of Japan's most ancient shrines. We were invited to sit in on a Traditional Shinto Wedding Ceremony. We were very lucky to be able to do this because only family members are allowed to witness the ...
Dinner with Uzaki-san
... was great. You might notice I write a different name today, I realized that I had been using his first name by mistake. In Japan you usually write the surname followed by the given name on business card, but on the English side of the card they write it ...
it:s a small world after all
As I was walking home after getting off the bus this afternoon, I passed *the park* (it:s more the size of our front yard in Lubbock) and there were three girls chasing each other and an older man walking his dog. As I approached the park, the three ...
Nagasaki day 2
I forgot to tell you about our taxi trip home yesterday. We didn't finish our meal till 10:45, which meant that we couldn't walk home and make curfew. As we got to the tram stop the tram just left, leaving us only one option, to take a cap. The taxi ...
Nagasaki : Kota Indo di Jepang
... dibeli oleh Mitsubishi dan ia pun bekerja sebagai konsultan seumur hidup pada perusahaan itu. Glover pulalah yang merintis berdirinya Japan Brewery Co., salah satu bir papan atas Jepang. Suasana Eropa sangat terasa di Glover Garden. Rumah kediaman Glover ...
Peachy keen
... good. Watched a mama and her calf play around a bit. Craig and I went to Nakajin castle in the Northern part of Okinawa and saw some lovely Sakura! (Japanese for cherry blossom) We had a bento (lunch box) and took pictures. It was ...
I too have been to Beppu
"Welcome to Bepppooooo" That is the sound that greeted us when we arrived in the quiet city of Beppu, on the south island of Kyushu. Beppu is tiny - there are less than 100,000 people who live here, and as soon as we arrived we loved ...
The Fancy Face in the Elestric Mind
as for the title...you gotta love Engrish! I met my host family today. They are so sweet and they defintely weren;t being modest about their abilities (rather lack there-of) to speak english. Thank goodness that one of my fellow exchange students ...
Sightseeing in Nagasaki
... got off the web...hope it works Later we went to the Spectacles Bridge (Megane bashi) which is the first stone bridge in Japan. More info regarding the history of that to come later We went to the Urakami Church, a catholic church destroyed when the ...
Sakurajima
Mr Marc, Miss Lorraine free bread for you were the words I woke up to for the second day in a row. Again we were up and out before 9. Because the house was so cold it was impossible to think of dressing for anything other than the cold. The result was ...
Back in the Congo hood
Our arrival was immediately Congolese -- we'd only received two landing cards on the plane, but the not-so-helpful gentleman in the glass booth at the airport needed four. Then two baggage cart entrepeneurs descended upon us, and it turned out we needed ...
We're Not In Kansas Anymore
... Real wasabi is so rare and difficult to grow, it is extremely expensive and is rarely used in restaurants, at least outside of Japan. I was really excited to try the real thing and it too was awesome! Following my breakfast, we stopped at Starbucks ...
Day-Trip to Kyoto
On the 30th, we got up really early to catch the Shinkansen to Kyoto, and that's where we spent the entire day. The ride was much more enjoyable for me that time around, as my ear infection was completely gone by that point. It was a semi-long trip - 3 ...
Merry Christmas Japan!
Christmas was a little different this year but it was still enjoyable because I got to spend it with my 'family' in Japan. That family is the gang of other exchange students. We stayed at Jamaica's place in Isahaya and had a great time celebrating! ...
The months are flying (Welcoming Daddy Home)
Wow! I cannot believe that we are already halfway through October. Getting back on Island was interesting to say the least. We had to do a lot of running around to get ready for the new school year and prepare for Trevor's return from ...
"Höllisch" dampfend
Kann man in der Ferne Fernweh haben? Ist Fernweh überhaupt der richtige Ausdruck für das Bewusstwerden, dass die Tage in der Ferne gezählt sind? Ich wurde mittlerweile mehrfach per Email und Kommentaren darauf hingewiesen, dass ich mich mit dem ...
The Day of our arrival at our last destination
... cross over from Honshu (the main island) to Kyushu, which also marked my first time off the main island in three visits to Japan! Yay! Then in Fukuoka we had to transfer to another, slower train as Nagasaki did not have a shinkansen railroad at that time ...
What a wonderfull world
... ich mit gemuese und Pflanten gearbeitet - total einfacher arbeit und gar nicht hart. Sayako ( 27 und hat selber gewwoof`t in Japan ) und Choppolina ( 32 und verkauft Blumen in ihren Blumen laden ) sind geschwiester - die waren beide so lieb. Sayako hat ...
Boats, trains, and aeroplanes. Nope. Just trains
... by rice paddies that edge right up along the mountains. Unlike the rolling, undulating hills of our dear Tennessee, mountains in Japan have no foothills, and appear to shoot directly out of the ground without warning. They are verdant and ...
Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
Is it because I lied when I was 17? I can actually say that now, being 18 and all. The last two days on my "supposed" tropical island paradise has been bucketing cats, dogs and small children constantly. Now, the thing with these islands are ...
When You Wish Upon A Star
... I went to the airport and found out about cheap, last minute, unreserved tickets that I could buy, which I decided on. Overall, Okinawa was a fascinating island. I dont think there is anywhere like it. It is a bizaare mix of Japan and America in the ...
Fukuoka
... we decided it was time to check out the nightlife in town and hit the town along with another guy, Chris from Scotland. Japan had got some great nightlife, unfortunately it can be really hard to track it down as most of the bars are on the third ...
Our adventures continued
... experience because my father was born in Kyoto. I remember coming to Kyoto as a kid and going around with my father. I used to visit Japan every summer until I was 12 years old. So this was a time for me to revisit my childhood. Kyoto was as beautiful as ...
More Dutch than Holland
Hallo zusammen, hatte genug Zeit in Nagasaki um meinen Rail Pass noch einmal zu nutzen und bin nach Huis Ten Bosch gefahren. Dort haben die Japaner Holland nachgebaut, treu dem japanischen Motto, kopiere das Original, aber mache es besser. Holland ist ...
My Surreal Island Paradise
The Gods must really love me. I mustve been a saint or something in a past life. That or my guardian angel mustve bribed them. I am in the most beautiful place I think I have ever been to. Today I woke up to find the miserable rain had completely ...
Pampering
On Friday, I woke up on the couch at around 6 am when Riley woke up, but was way too tired to get up, so I went back to sleep. My mom tried to rouse me to watch Riley's last swim lesson, and later to go work out, but it was impossible. When I finally did ...
Hallowe'en Fun
There is an orphanage near Saga City where a lot of cool kids live. On November 3rd a bunch of foreigners, some Japanese people, and I got to go visit the orphanage and do some fun Hallowe'en activities with the kids. We spent the afternoon there and I ...
Kagoshima
... makes a city stand out to you. I imagine it was heavily bombed during the War as it is on the southernmost island in the Japan chain. Anyway, I am glad it didn't have anything to keep us there 'cause if you can't stand the heat, get out of ...
Japan
... . One was, of course, the golden arches. The other was a tiny little Japanese restaurant with no English on the menu but Japan's wonderful invention of plastic samples of meals out the front. A bit of pointing and smiling and a few domo arigatos later ...