Day 7: The wrong train, translation mishaps, and ALOT of Takoyaki and beers
November 15th 2015 Hello world,
We had a little bit of sleep in today, which was nice… but then it was all hands on deck to get the apartment squared away and pack everything for the trip down to Osaka! because we are staying in airbnb places, we did not want our hosts (even though we had never seen them, feeling that we had treated their apartment with disrespect, we made sure we stripped the beds, vacuumed and
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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more 
