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Sankoso Okayama

1-7-36 Furugyocho Okayama, Okayama, Chugoku, 703-8278, Japan

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Kurashiki and Onomichi: Rainy day Plan B

A travel blog entry by mchao

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... views of the inland sea.

Kurashiki's appeal centers around its canal, where Edo era storehouses (kura) are preserved in a very traditional looking quarter. The whole effect is very old Japanese, but like Magome and Tsumago, the kura themselves have all been turned into eateries and souvenir and crafts shops. This makes for great browsing, but for a backpacker with the threat of bankruptcy looming over him if he can't ...

We're back again!

A travel blog entry by snichelson

Hello everyone! Back in Japan for a whirlwind 16 day stay. My brother's friend Peter is also with us for the time I am here. Traveling here was easy and hassle-free. We flew with Delta this time out of Seattle to Osaka rather than Dallas/Ft. Worth to Tokyo and then down to Osaka. I took some Tylenol PM and passed out the entire time -- very thankful for that creation. I hate flying, and the less of it I'm aware of, the better.

Meg has been in Japan all summer, and will ...

Christmas WITH Cake

A travel blog entry by jellyinjapan

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... them how to write Merry Christmas in cursive.

~*~ The jr. high and sr. high International Understanding clubs joined forces for a Christmas party. We made cute little strawberry Santas for the cakes, talked about what we were doing for our winter vacation, and played a game about holidays in various countries.

~*~ In class at this school, my good school, I made a Christmas game for my students on powerpoint. I wore elf ears, the other ALT wore reindeer ...

The Art of the Enkai

A travel blog entry by jellyinjapan

... as well, as thank you presents (so I left with rainbow giant Pocky and a Sumo calendar as well).

After one of the staff members stumbled his way over (it’s amazing how drunk Japanese men can get on 2 hours of beer and shochu, which is like Japanese vodka from what they said) to invite me to the 新年会, or New Year’s Party, my teachers organized our 二次会, Niji-kai, meaning afterparty, or second party of the night. We ...

The Year That Thanksgiving Happened Twice

A travel blog entry by jellyinjapan

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... and they had no idea what a turkey was. I was offended for our (tasty) almost national bird. One of my teachers had eaten it when she studied in New York, and loved it (with cranberry sauce, she added. She also liked burritos. She’s amazing.). But most Japanese people will go their whole lives without a tasty bite of turkey. Gobble gobble. It’s a crime.

There is someone out there who loves us, we few, hungry foreigners in Japan. A few ...