Japan - The month of adventure
Today went south to Kumamoto, it was a your average Japanese city - with the exception of Kumamon, the Kumamoto bear. He is the towns mascot and he is everywhere!!!!! (The Bank of Japan estimates that in the two years prior to 2014, Kumamon generated ¥123.2 billion in revenue). Buses, buildings, trains, merchandise. We checked out Kumamoto castle, which was huge, and has a tree that was planted 800 years ago. There was also a show, which was
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Day seveteen - Kumamoto, my home town
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Kumamoto
Today went south to Kumamoto, it was a your average Japanese city - with the exception of Kumamon, the Kumamoto bear. He is the towns mascot and he is everywhere!!!!! (The Bank of Japan estimates that in the two years prior to 2014, Kumamon generated ¥123.2 billion in revenue). Buses, buildings, trains, merchandise. We checked out Kumamoto castle, which was huge, and has a tree that was planted 800 years ago. There was also a show, which was
completely in Japanese, so no idea what was going on, but one of the performers stacked it, which made it entertaining. The castle wasn’t that interesting, they tend to be museums, I am much more interested to see how they were and how they were used in their previous lives
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Day One - Arrival
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Day Two - The best day ever!
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Day Three - My kingdom for some gumboots
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Day Four - oh the humidity
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Day Five - The weird
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Day Six - Head for the hills
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Day Seven - Parks and Rec
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Day Eight - Samurai, Geisha and phonographs
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Day Nine - Kyoto bound
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Day Ten - I don't want to talk about it
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Day Eleven - Shrines and temples and Tori gates, Oh my!
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Day Twelve- My favorite cultural pass time
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Day Thirteen - Deer, Oh Dear
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Day Fourteen - all that glitters is gold and gion
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Day fifteen - a thousand paper cranes and okonomiyaki to take the edge off
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Day sixteen - So many bunnies
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Day seveteen - Kumamoto, my home town
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