I’ve been in Japan for about 30 hours and I am already loving everything I’ve seen here. As my mom and I were on the train from Osaka (where our flight landed) to Kyoto (where we’re staying for the week) I noticed two things about Japan: the first is that it seems very homogeneous and [...]

I hate to use such a stupid word like sucks but it’s the only thing that fits. I want to get from point A to point B. They are 3 miles apart if you go the most direct route and supposedly it would take 7 minutes by car (says MapQuest). And it takes me almost [...]