Semester in Tokyo

Last weekend, I had the very special opportunity to visit Seoul, South Korea! This trip was my first experience of visiting a country on...

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to visit the town of Kamakura and Enoshima island. Although it was quite overcast on the day I...

This weekend, I took a quick trip to Kyoto and Osaka for some sightseeing! In Kyoto, I stayed at an onsen hotel where I was able to relax...

I had the opportunity to attend a baseball game between my host university, Waseda University, and its rival school, Keio University. The...

This weekend I went to one of the bigger May festivals in Tokyo called Kanda Matsuri! I learned that the festival has not taken place...

Golden Week (in Japanese: ゴールデンウィーク), or Ōgon Shūkan, is a week of holidays starting from April 29th through early May in Japan that...

My first week in Japan was full of surprises, starting with the weather. It was a lot colder in Tokyo than I had planned for, and I ended...