One of the main travel ventures I had in Japan was a three day trip Osaka and Kyoto. Originally, me and my partner, Charlene, had planned to travel here with our friend Alicia who was able to visit us during our break before the spring semester. On the morning of getting to our bus that departed at 9:30 a.m., we were already running a little late and made it to the subway at around 8 a.m. thinking we still had plenty of time to catch our bus. However, the subway had been stopped due to some kind of issue on the tracks. This was very uncommon and I only experienced this twice over my entire year in Japan. We ended up losing thirty minutes of time and arrived at our destination with around fifteen minutes to spare and all we had to do was find our bus stop. We ended up not finding our bus in time. If you haven’t seen my post on travel tips, please check it out as a good amount of those tips were learned the hard way, such as this example. Charlene and I were lucky enough to reschedule our trip, but Alicia would have have already headed back to America by then. To make up for this, we bought some kind of charm in Kyoto and symbolized it as her and took pictures of it during our travels to make up for the failure on our part (mainly me) and sent them to her as a gift. We ended up accomplishing all of our goals for this trip and had a lot of fun exploring the historical sites of Japan, some attractions, and of course eating good food. I highly recommend anyone studying abroad in Japan try and make the trip to Kyoto and Osaka as they are both very memorable places with plenty to see and do.
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AuthorI am Kyle Sablan and I studied abroad at Yokohama National University (YNU) during the 2016-2017 academic year. This blog was created as one of the requirements for receiving the Gilman Scholarship. The purpose of this blog is to share my personal experience with everybody and encourage interest in studying abroad. Archives
April 2018
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