Business Hotel Miyako Station Koyo

5-1 Wami-machi, Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku, 027-0075, Japan | Hotel

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Heading Home

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... my family and then sat down at a free Internet cafe to send a couple of e-mails to my parents and get ready for the flight.

And then, we boarded the flight, and came home. The trip was great fun, and I had an absolutely wonderful time, but there's no denying how happy I was to see my family again after coming off the ...

Tokyo

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... and searching for a CD shop. This was primarily my fault as, after listening to some Japanese music with Chinatsu, I was made a fan. Hence the search for an AKB48 (the most popular group in Japan) CD. Thankfully, we found it! (That and, bonus, we came across a Pokemon Center!)

We spent a relaxed evening at the hotel, where I got on the Internet and got to talk with my parents, and then I got ready for the plane ride the next ...

Seagulls Are the Same in Every Country

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... of them, but on the boat ride we saw a fair few.

Also on the boat ride, we saw a fair few seagulls. For fun, we bought some little cheesy cracker things and fed them to the excited gulls. It was a lot of fun, especially when they could swoop down and catch thrown treats in midair! One noisy one that perched on the edge of the boat was my favorite, a grizzled looking older fella I ...

Tsunami Scenes

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... that happening to one of us. Unfortunately, the earthquake simulator was broken, but I wasn't too disappointed.

After eating lunch at a local farmer's market, we went to a town on the coast to view tsunami damage. That wasn't part of the original plan, but I was adamant about seeing it.

The town of Ishinomaki was gone. Debris littered the ground, wood tossed and broken, piles of rubble and ...

Earthquakes Get Old, Fast

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Had a bit of a rude awakening this Monday morning. My first earthquake? Kind of fun. Waking up at four o'clock in the morning to another huge earthquake? Not so much.

The day (officially) started out quite formally, with another ceremony by the Japanese. I hadn't realized they were so fond of formal occasions, and the morning meeting with the mayor, the superintendant, the council member and the vice was certainly that. It was an interesting experience, and something I'll ...

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This hotel, located on 5-1 Wami-machi, Miyako, is near Todogasaki.
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