So, my roommate and I have been going a little crazy with buying manga in the past couple months. At the moment between us we have almost 200 volumes. We're sending a box each back home today, the shipping cost from what we've been able to estimate is gonna be about 8000 yen each for the cheapest slowest method. The books should be arriving roughly around the same time we get back home.
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Golden week has come and past and I had a lot of fun. My friend took me to Mt. Takao and we climbed to the top, then after we climbed down we went to a little restaurant and got some Eel. I was worried I wouldn't like it at first but it was pretty good. Then we went to a place called Musashi Imperial Graveyard that has the burial sites of Emperor Taisho and Emperor Showa as well as their wives. It was a really beautiful area. Later in the week I took a trip up to Miyagi Ken, I took a night bus from Tokyo station Wednesday night and got to Fukushima Thursday morning then took the local train to Shiroishi. First I went to Shiroishi castle for a few hours, then from the station I took a taxi to the place I've been wanting to go for the longest time. The Zao fox village. There were a lot more people there than I thought there would be. It was really fun walking around the village and seeing all the foxes they had there. The foxes mostly kept to themselves and were lazing about in various places. The main place they were interacting with people was the only spot that you were allowed to give them food. I finally learned from this trip, what the fox says... I'm sorry for the pain that past line gave whoever is reading this. I got a couple of souvenirs and decided to make my way back to Shiroishi station. Instead of using a taxi or bus though, I walked down the mountain, it took a few hours and was a little dangerous in a couple spots, but it was an amazing experience, all of the sights on the way down were really beautiful, and once I got to the bottom of the mountain, the rest of the walk was through farm lands. It was an amazing experience overall. I got to the station and headed back to Fukushima station to wait for the night bus back to Tokyo. Overall it was an awesome day trip, but I don't recommend riding two night buses in a 24 hour period. It's hard to actually sleep on them, at least for me, and I was dead tired by the time I got back home.
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Study abroad 2018-2019 blogAuthorMy name is John Webster and I'm a Japanese language and culture major at CSUMB. I studied abroad at Toyo University in Tokyo, Japan. Archives
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