Tohoku Journal

Posts while I was living in Sendai, Japan

Miyajima Revisited

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It's been over a year since my family visited me in Japan but only half a year since I posted about our time in Hiroshima and Miyajima [https://blog.novaugust.net/

富屋

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The International Studies office here at the University of Wyoming is having a photo competition. They're looking for photos from anyone affiliated with the school who spent some part of the

Hiroshima and Miyajima

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Hiroshima was great. We stayed on the bay, bounced our way across the waves in a boat or two, and had a fancy meal up on the twenty second story of a hotel

Back to Tokyo

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お台場 Jenn finished her two weeks in Japan with one last ride on the bullet train, headed back to Tokyo. We said goodbye to her at our fancy hotel on a man-made island

Toudaiji and Temaki Zushi

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東大寺 An hour on a train put us in Japan's first capital, Nara. It boasts the largest wooden structure in the world, Toudaiji (東大寺Great East Temple), and is also famous for