Konbanwa! This is Evie and Katie reporting on our last full day in Kyoto. This is Evie speaking! I had a half free day, so after sleeping in I took a 25-minute walk down Shijo-Dori street to the Kyoto Pokemon Center. Japan is hot and humid in the summer, but the cloud cover following recent …
Day 1: Kyoto to Tokyo
Wednesday July 3rd: The first day of the second half of our trip through Japan consisted mostly of travel. For those who have not been keeping up with the blog, the group has spent the last few days in the historic city of Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto was a beautiful city, but I was unfortunate enough …
Day 18 – Hikes, Eating, & Loads of Fun!
Saturday, June 29 Hey there readers! Fasten your seatbelts because I’m about to take you on an incredible ride of what today’s activities consisted of! I, Ariez Christmon, will be your driver and guide for today’s recap of adventures. My group and I met up at 10 AM in the lobby. We took a couple …
Day 20: No Monkeys Were Harmed in the Making of this Blog Post
Every day that we have been in Kyoto we have hiked a mountain, and today was no different. But what allows this mountain to stand out from the rest is that there were friendly little primates waiting for us at the top. That’s right: monkeys! The Iwatayama monkey park, located in Arashiyama just a forty-five …
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Day 19 – Shopping in streets of Kyoto
Sunday, June 30th, 2019 With the southern trip soon coming to an end, everything seems to have calmed down. Everyone on trip seems to be more comfortable with each other and everyone seems to understand each other better. Often plans don’t go as planned, and things don’t work out. Today was one of those days. …
Day 17- Chugging Along to Kyoto
Friday, June 28th Hi there, my name is Colton Gilbert and I am in charge of the blog for today. The weather was sunny with clouds dotting the sky creating shadows along the ground. Our group of 14 woke up early and started toward the train station. The humidity and heat causing a fair bit …
Day 16 – Fukuoka 2 Electric Boogaloo
Friday, June 28th Greetings, My name is Matthew Quigley and I will be taking care of todays blog. For those of you keeping up, we recently touched down in the historic city of Fukuoka. Located in southern Japan, Fukuoka is home to the oldest natural port in Japan. Therefore it has been a popular center …
Day 15 – Hoot Hoot
Wednesday June 26th My name is Joshua Arias , and ill be taking over the blog for today. We started out by waking up early , and taking Stewart’s offer up on grabbing us all something quick to eat from the local FamilyMart for our long journey out of Nagasaki, which we had more than …
Day 14: Paper Cranes for Peace
Hello there, My names John If you’ve been keeping up with the blog so far then you know we’re in the city of Nagasaki. A city I’m sure needs no introduction, but hopefully the last blog showed there is so much more to this beautiful place than its somber legacy. In light of that I’ll …
Day 13: Another Bullet Train
O- Hi - O, my name Meghna! This morning we met up early in Stewart time, 9:30. Everyone was looking a bit tired but we were going to rally behind our chosen leaders of the day. After making sure we had everyone... twice, we faithfully followed our leaders to the Hiroshima train station. But today …
Japan Lived Experience 2019 