Blogs from Fukuoka, Japan, Asia - page 10

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Welcome to Japan, Fukuoka Asia » Japan » Fukuoka By BennybMay 29th 2007Well Welcome to the country of Japan. After a very busy time in Taiwan we are now in the courtry of Japan. It is suppose to be no so busy here because to the # of christians is not very many at all. So I guess we look forward to a slower time in which we can have more interaction with people. It so far has been great to be here.... read more

This week, I'm in Fukuoka! It's haru yasumi (spring vacation) at school so I took the chance to get out of Tottori and go to a new place. I'm taking Japanese conversation and beginner classes at Genki Japanese and Culture School (Genki JACs for short). This city is great, I think it may be my favorite city in Japan. The weather right now is sooo nice, it reminds me of the Bay Area actually so if feels familiar to me. The city itself isn't that big, but there's a lot to see and it's also pretty easy to navigate. I'm doing the apartment share so I am staying in an apartment with a Japanese family. They are unique though because the father is a foreigner (American) and his wife is Japanese and they have two little ... read more

We went down to Fukuoka (on Kyushu, the bottom island) to catch up with Shino for the public holiday. She took us to the Tochoji Temple (with pictures of 12 different hells and a scary tunnel where you are supposed to rely on Buddha to guide you out), Hakata Michiya Folk Museum and Kushida Shrine. At a place by the museum you could see how the obi part of kimonos were made on these hard-out wooden machines and the people working them let us have a go. The Shrine still had the remnants of the Setsuban festival, and also a big float that gets carried around once a year when men representing different districts race in loincloths!... read more

The more time that passes, the more I realize just how much I experienced during my first year in Hiroshima. This past weekend Casey and I brought a group of 26 English teachers down to the southern island of Kyushu to watch sumo and visit a theme park called Spaceworld. This trip marked our third time watching sumo, which is really something you only need to do once... but is always a great excuse to get together with friends and enjoy a few drinks while watching very big men in diaper-like cloths! Always a great time! At 10am on Saturday morning we climbed into our rented bus and headed down to Kyushu. Apart from the continual pirate jokes (everything with "-ar" just had to turn into "-arghhhhh!"), the 4.5 hour ride down was pretty uneventful, ... read more