After probably 10 hours straight studying on Thursday for weekly test on Friday morning, it was nice to yet again get out from JCMU for a day trip. Returned again to Kyoto, this time with the intent on visiting the Fushimi Inari shrine, and also to go back to the Kyoto Handicraft Center. [...]

Its taken me a bit of time, but I’m finally getting to write about the homestay I did this weekend (Sept. 23-25) in Shiga-cho. On Friday, we left JCMU at 10am and took off for a 2 hour trip via bus to Shiga-cho (Shiga Town). Once we got to Shiga-cho, we stopped the [...]

The World Expo, which is held every 5 years, was this year in Aichi, Japan, which is near Nagoya. It opened on March 25, and will be closing on September 25. They are expecting 15 million people to visit the expo during the 180 days that it is open, and so far (as [...]

Well the day trip to Kyoto was a nice change of scenery from that of JCMU. It took us about 45 minutes to get there once we reached Hikone station (by bike), and once we got there we ended up wandering around Kyoto station (the second largest train station in Japan, and also one [...]