My parents have left Japan, and so I have gone back to my regular schedule. We packed so many activities into the one week that they were in the country that I thought I would want a break, but just the opposite happened. I decided I wanted to continue doing and seeing as much as… Read more

As the weekend approached, I fell asleep knowing that my family was on the flight on their way to Tokyo. I met them in a train station just before our shinkansen bullet train was to leave for Kyoto. 2 and a half hours later, we pulled up to Kyoto station and I with my jet-lagged… Read more