Blogs from Iwate, Japan, Asia - page 5

Wow, I wish we'd tried this in Canada before everything on the computers was in Japanese! We've been here just over two weeks and are settling in. We survived 3 earthquakes in our first four days (only one was big enough to wake us up, magnitude 6.9), I've had one job offer, Colin's survived two company parties and we still have no clue when it comes to the Japanese public transit system--it is not comforting to know that they can't figure it out either. We had our first onsen(hot spring) experience last week. It was very relaxing, Colin was nice enough to tell me on the way there that no swimsuits were required, in fact they are banned. Thankfully the men and women have separate onsens because I don't think I could've handled all the Japanese ... read more