Right after coming back from Okutama, I went on a trip to Ibaraki. It’s capital city Mito is home to Kairakuen, one of the Three Great...

Me and my friend decided to make a last minute trip to Okutama, a mountainous area on the other side of Tokyo. It took a couple hours to...

I went on a lot of trips during July. In the beginning of the month, I went to Kamakura and Enoshima with a friend. We wanted to stay at...

I went to Nikko, an area north of Tokyo with a lot of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It’s a nice place in the mountains with a nearby lake...

My friends and I spent a couple days in Hakone, which is located in the mountains of Kanagawa (around a two hour bus ride from Tokyo)....

In the middle of May, my friend and I went to Kansai for four days. We took the night bus from Tokyo to Osaka and even though it was a 10...

Golden Week is a string of holidays right next to each other in Japan and includes Children’s Day and Constitution Day. This year it...

Mt. Takao is located in Tokyo Prefecture and is around an hour ride by train from Waseda University, which makes it a great day trip out...

I went on a trip with my friend to Kanazawa city in Ishikawa prefecture, which is west of Tokyo and on the coast of the Sea of Japan. We...

I flew to Japan during the middle of March to start my next study abroad semester! I will be studying at Waseda University, located in...