Today was our last day in Okayama and it was spent exploring a themepark that we unexpectedly bumped into when we got to Okayama. Tivoli Park! It was a cute little theme park based off Tivoli Park in Denmark. The park contained a fun rollercoaster, a flume ride, big wheel and several other smaller traditional sytle attractions as seen in the pho...

Stayed in Osaka for about 6 months of the time that I was in Japan...great city!!

Tonight, my church held an event called "Super Christmas", and me as well as my friends, Yuta (Japan), Naoki (Japan), and Maria (Germany) bought tickets. This is one of my church's biggest outreaches of the year, and they will do it again tomorrow night as well. The Gospel Choir sang numerous songs, there were dance and drama teams, and a messag...

Vroeg op, trein van Kyoto naar Osaka om om 8 uur in de rij te kunnen aansluiten voor kaartjes voor HET Sumo tournooi. Nog 200 tickets te krijgen and we did it!! Een heuse box nog wel, wat inhoud dat je fijn op een tatami mat (lees grond) mag zitten. De box was ongeveer 1 m2 met 4 kussentjes. Inderdaad, voor 4 personen. Mazzel voor ons want de an...

Osaka is a fantastic city, along with Tokyo is is a must if you love big cities. The best things that we did here was visit the Osaka Castle, The Umeda Sky building, Downtown city area and surrounding areas, flew in one of the cities massive ferris wheels, and went down a street that had nothing but plastic food for restaurants! Hotel Chue where...

Osaka jumped into our list of travel possibilities mostly because our friends Jill and Darren, had spent a few years there teaching English and loved it and raved about it incessantly when they came home. They'd made a lot of really good friends there, some of which had come to visit them in Seattle where we got the chance to meet them, too. Nor...