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First day in disaster region - oshima island
Entry by Joanna Met at Azumaya to hear lecturers view on disaster. Ms kotsumas shared her experience of disaster. She was separated from her elementary age son for five days as tsunami went through middle of island. Same with her son in kesennuma city. She could not get to him for a ...
First day in disaster region - oshima island
Entry by Joanna Met at Azumaya to hear lecturers view on disaster. Ms kotsumas shared her experience of disaster. She was separated from her elementary age son for five days as tsunami went through middle of island. Same with her son in kesennuma city. She could not get to him for a ...
Travelling again
Today was full on traveling. While we physically do not do anything i find everyone is exhausted at the end of a traveling day. A little bit of excitement was had when Junior, KC, Dean and myself got stuck on the train. Trying to get 44 people off a carriage using one door is not smart but we HAVE to listen to organizers. This meant that the people boarding train got impatient ...
A golden past
The next day our path took us past Fukushima. A major city in the north, but clearly not as packed as the major cities in the south, with fewer highrises and a look similar to the suburbs of those cities. Our destination was the Hiraizumi, once the centre of a mighty empire but now a sleepy village living off the memories of a distant past. One legend even has it, that Ghengis Khan originated from here, after the fall of this ...
What can be better then the Eiffel Tower?
... of Japanese Buddhism.
After learning a bit of history about the temple, we decided to go back to the tower because around it was Tofuya Ukai, a Japanese restaurant that we had booked weeks in advance. We ordered a feast of Otsukuri, The Hussan course and lovely sweetfish. This ranged in prices from $74-$87. After that feast, we relaxed for a bit and enjoyed wandering through the huge gardens. At 1:00pm we took the train ...