Mountains

The panorama of Kyoto from Daimonji, taken exactly from the center of the 大. The one thing that I find the most exciting about Japan is its physical landscape. You might wonder why I didn't say food, girls, manga, kimonos, shrines, temples, high-tech robots, or something like that; all these things...

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Japan in Bullet Points

Me, Okaasan, and Otousan at the Welcome Party My host family's name is Iwai (岩井）, but if I want to be polite. I must say Iwai san. There are three people in the family: my host mom Kimiko, my host dad Akira, and my host sister Tomoko. They also have a son, Atsushi, but he is happily married...

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Orientation

Me and my two lovely guides, Saki and Erina, in front of the Kyoto Station. It’s been two weeks since I arrived at the Kansai airport in Osaka, and so I figured it might be time to write my first entry about Japan. As I told you before, I first flew to Sapporo to visit Kent, my Colby roommate, in...

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Helsinki

Myslím, že nemá nějaký zvláštní smysl Vám vysvětlovat, že Helsinki je město čisté, tiché, klidné, krásné, zelené, plné parků, nádherných domů, stromů, kostelů, muzeí, čerstvých ryb a dalších věcí, co Vám jsou úplně jasné. O těchto věcech, které jsou jistě zajímavé, se ostatně dá dočíst na internetu,...

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