One of the first activities I ever went out to do with my friends was when we visited the Ishiya Chocolate Factory, famous for its cookies known as “Shiroi Koibito.” It was a Friday, one of the days of the rolling graduations for my language school. We had all gone to a restaurant across the […]
Japan Trips
The Beautiful Lavender Fields of Furano
When I was doing my second language school program over the Summer of 2019, I stayed in Hokkaido, Japan. The language school I was attending, Hokkaido JaLS, had weekend excursions out of the main city of Sapporo. One of these trips was to see Tomita Farm in Furano and its famous lavender fields. We left […]
Exploring Nature in Hokkaido University’s Botanical Gardens
Located just a few blocks away from the Hokkaido JaLS language school is Hokkaido University’s beautiful botanical gardens. It’s quite unsuspecting from the outside, but it is quite large once you get in and really makes you feel as if you are in the middle of a forest. My friend, Mochi, and I decided to […]
Maid Cafe
My first ever visit to a maid cafe was probably one of my most memorable experiences in Tokyo. While wandering the streets of Akihabara, we found a maid cafe that I had found online. I honestly had no idea what to expect from the maid cafe. We went up a few flights of stairs, passing […]
Akihabara – Overview
While visiting Akihabara we first went into a bookstore. It looked pretty small, but it had 9 floors to make up for the lack of space. It was a little grueling to have to take 9 escalators to get up to the top floor, but it was interesting to experience. The top floor, known as […]