Thank you Hard Rock Cafe. I’ve been on the fence in the past week attempting to figure out where I should travel to in my last month in Japan, especially where I should go for the upcoming ’student directed fieldtrip’. Well today, HRC was so helpful and sent me an email to say that they were having a sale on their merchandise, and because I’m a HRC Member Card holder, I can get in on the sale. So, going to visit the website to see what exactly was on sale, I noticed that they’ve put out a whole new pin series, and this time the theme is cherry blossoms!! They go on sale March 1, the same day that I will again be able to use the Seishun 18 tickets. So thank you HRC, you’ve helped me figure out where I’ll go on a Friday afternoon. And thanks again, for helping me decide to go to Tokyo for the student directed fieldtrip.

Now, before you think I’ve finally lost it, I had already been thinking of going back to Tokyo again in March. “But you were there for an entire week in December”, you might be saying. Well, the only place I actually want to go to *in* Tokyo is Akihabara, the electronics and anime district of Tokyo. The saying is that if you’re looking for something electronic and you can’t find it in Akihabara, it doesn’t exist. I also really want to go to Kamakura, which features the second largest Daidutsu in Japan (the first largest being in Nara), and was once the capital of Japan, as well as travel to somewhere north of Tokyo that I haven’t been to yet (Nikko? Niigata?). I’m also slightly pondering going to an onsen somewhere, preferably where there are as few people as possible and with good scenery. The only hard thing about planning out trips for next month is that for my Japanese Culture and Civilization we have 4 fieldtrips and they are all on Saturdays in March, which really cramps my traveling style. When I make concrete plans I’ll write about it….