Blogs from Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan, Asia

{Anna} We went to see some children at school. We sat in a lesson. The children were learning the alphabet. It was fun. I looked at some books. The writing went down the page and not across. I saw school dinners being made. {Dad} The teachers and pupils at Chitosa nursery school made us very welcome. We joined in a class where the children were being taught English. The children had fun learning the alphabet. Japanese reading books often have the writing going down the page. You start at the BACK of the book and read each page from top to bottom!... read more

{Anna} We have come to stay with our friends Mark, Yoko, Jasmine and Joshua. They live a long way from Tokyo and we had to travel on a train to get here. There were lots of different trains at the railway station. Our train was the green one and it has a long nose. It was a whizzy fast train. {Dad} We travelled by train to a city called Goshogawara. This is where we are staying with our friends. The Japanese call their trains "Shinkansen". They are more famously known as "Bullet trains". This is because they are shaped like a bullet and they travel very fast. Our Shinkansen train is nicknamed "The Crocodile", this is because of it's long nose and green colour. It can travel nearly 3 times faster than a car travels on ... read more