Category: Japan


  • Thanksgiving in Japan, Part 2: Another Side of Honshu

    From Tokyo, we took a 2.5 hour bullet train to Kyoto, where we were staying for the rest of the trip. While I hadnโ€™t gone into the trip planning on trying to see Mount Fuji, since that seemed like a great way to be disappointed, the weather was amazingly kind to us, and for several…

  • Thanksgiving in Japan, Part 1: Tokyo

    Jason and I had been planning to go to Japan for years – he had visited as a kid and wanted to go again (when he was more willing to enjoy all the food on offer), and I was excited to visit for the first time. The pandemic, of course, slowed things down considerably, but…