2019 Edit: Henn na Hotel has, sadly, decided to greatly reduce the number of their robots from 243 robots at their peak to 85 robots (as of Jan 2019), with the number of entertainment robots being reduced the most. The third and newest wing does not have any more robots. Reasons for this decrease are: … Read More Staying in a Robot Hotel (Henn na Hotel, Nagasaki)
My last stop was the Imari-Arita Ware Traditional Craft Center: And in keeping with the wind chime festival theme, the entrance had wind chimes as well. They had a miniature model of the kiln as well too(: There are two rooms that feature Imari and Arita ware, and I thought this vase was really interesting.… Read More Okawachiyama Part 3: Traditional Craft Center + Painting a Cup!
You can read the first part here. After making my way from one end of the village to the other, I decided to take a break for lunch. There are only a few cafes in the village, and not all of them were open, so if you’ve got picky eaters with you, I’d recommend having… Read More Okawachiyama Part 2: Lunch + Rest of Village
So yesterday I decided to actually use my rest day to go out. I decided to go to Ookawachiyama (大川内山 – link leads to their Japanese website), which is a place that I’ve been wanting to go for a while. Originally, I planned to go there on the 22nd of July, because there was going… Read More Okawachiyama Part 1: The Village
I was at the supermarket last week when I remembered that Oreo has released a line of sweets. It’s supposed to be only available this summer, so I decided to look for it and I found that Hershey’s released a line of sweets as well! And because my willpower for sweets is practically non-existent, I… Read More Oreo & Hershey’s Sweets Taste Test
Today happens to be the anniversary of the Church that I’m attending in Sasebo and 平和聖日 (Holy Day of Peace) for the 日本基督教団 (United Church of Christ in Japan – for convenience, I use ‘the Church’ and ‘United Church of Christ in Japan’ pretty much interchangeably in this post, but I am not talking about… Read More (Part Of) Japanese Church History
(This post probably does not have a point) So a while back, I did an AMA on living in Japan on my Dayre. This was one of the questions: Have you been able to make good friends with Japanese? I’ve heard they are notoriously difficult to befriend and can be very fake and insincere. And… Read More Random Ramblings on Stereotypes & Making Friends
Yesterday, my friends and I went to pick blueberries! Originally, we wanted to go on this blueberry + onsen + gelato tour but they couldn’t get enough people so they canceled. Luckily for us, we found a farm we could go to and decided to just go there ourselves. The place was really very ulu though. It’s… Read More Blueberry Picking + Gelato!!!
Last week, I traveled all the way back to Fukuoka for the Lupicia Tea Marche! (To be honest I didn’t really need much of a reason) I really enjoyed last year’s marche and since I’m doing a tea exchange right now, I thought it the tea fair would be a good excuse to get all… Read More Lupicia Tea Marche 2017
So Huis ten Bosch is having a hydrangea festival right now, and one of my friends and I decided to go and take a look at the flowers and try the hydrangea parfait after work. And of course, I brought along my camera and took too many photos. Kinda like this. Amsterdam Square I finished… Read More Hydrangea Picture Spam! (+ Hydrangea Parfait)
