Every week when I make my way to Church, I pass by a display about the Nagasaki Bio Park. There are lots of nice photos of animals and more importantly, capybara plush toys which made me want to visit. And with my mom and brother in Japan, I finally had an excuse to go. Nagasaki… Read More Nagasaki Bio Park
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!!!
On Sunday, I heard that you could see fireflies in Sasebo. Well, I guess they are probably in Fukuoka too, but I didn’t have a car or a license when I was in Fukuoka. So I googled and found out that the last day of his firefly viewing event at Yunoki was on Sunday and… Read More I Saw Fireflies For the First Time!
While my sister was still here, we decided to drive around Sasebo for a day and visit the different observatories! The Sasebo99 site has a few recommended observatories (link to the English site) and we basically based our trip on that. By the way, anyone know how to embed a google map saved locations thing? I… Read More Sasebo Observatories
Finally finishing my recap of the Kuroshima trip, which was more than half a month ago! If you don’t remember, in the last post, I talked about the Deguchi family and some trees (it sounds boring when I put it like that). Well, after visiting those two sites, our guide brought us to a lookout… Read More Kuroshima – Make Sure You Visit (Part 3)
Hey everyone! Here’s part two of my trip to Kuroshima, continuing from where I left of the other time. After lunch, the guide brought us to look at… trees! I know it sounds boring, but the history behind them is pretty interesting. This is a camellia tree that will bear white flowers. It’s not the… Read More Kuroshima – Island of Faith (Part 2)
Since my sister is here, I wanted to bring her somewhere special. A little googling led me to Kuroshima island, which is famous for being one of the places where Christians hid during the persecution in Japan (mainly in the Tokugawa era). Another place would be the Goto islands, which is mentioned in Silence, but… Read More Kuroshima – Island of Hidden Christians (Part 1)
Since my sister is here and I’m not familiar with the area, we decided to explore Sasebo using a map. There was a guidebook, and they gave this “model course” for Sasebo city: If you can’t see it, the course goes like this: Sasebo station → Tunnel Yokocho Arcade → Hario Market → Sasebo Bridge… Read More We Tried the Recommended Sasebo Walking Route
I’m back! This week somehow is my presentation week (luckily I’m not actually speaking, just part of the team), so I’ve been rather busy with our analysis and helping brainstorm how the presentations should go. And asking the other teams lots of questions :p Anyway, let me just finish the Sasebo recap. After our cruise,… Read More Sasebo Part 2 – Kujukushima Aquarium+Food
My mom and bro came to Japan last week, and for the weekend, we decided to go to Sasebo. Our main purpose was to go apartment hunting, but we managed to squeeze in an afternoon of touring! And due to the many, many photos, I’ll be splitting the post into two parts – Part 1:… Read More Sasebo Part 1 – Kujukushima (九十九島)