Each year, firefighters from across the city gather at Kanazawa Castle to put on a display for the locals in celebration of the new year. Firefighters climb up onto tall bamboo ladders supported only by their crew mates and perform death-defying acrobatic stunts...
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After returning from our Thailand and Vietnam trip, T and I realized that many of our friends would be away over the Christmas and New Year season. Since it was our first time being away from family during New Years, we decided to do something fun with it, so we packed our bags once again and jumped on a night bus to Tokyo!
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On the second night that we stayed in Vietnam, we learned that a huge soccer match was happening that night, and the whole country would be watching. Around 7pm, we ventured out to find that the streets were PACKED with people...
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The second destination in our vacation of December 2018 was Vietnam. We had long heard about the bustling city culture, delicious food, and breathtaking natural scenery, and wanted to get a taste of what Vietnam had to offer...
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One of our original goals while living in Japan was to travel around southeast Asia as much as we possibly could. Seeing as work was becoming stressful for me, and that the first semester was coming to a close, we decided it was the perfect time to go on our first international adventure...
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In November of 2018, our friend, whom we had first met at the Toronto JET orientation, and whom we hadn't seen since the initial Tokyo orientation, came to visit us from the not-too-far prefecture of Gifu...
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Exactly one week after we visted Nata-dera Temple, we piled in our cars once again, this time to visit Eiheiji Temple, which was located in the neighbouring prefecture of Fukui. It was about an hour's drive, but it was very worth the trip...
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One weekend in November, a bunch of us hopped in a car and drove down to Komatsu, Ishikawa to visit Nata-dera, a buddhist temple known for it's situation in and between rock faces...
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In the same day as the previous post when we went to Kenrokuen again, we walked over to the historic tea and geisha district of Kanazawa city. Although it's a fairly small area, you're transported to a different time period as soon as you step foot on the main road...
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As mentioned in a previous post, T and I visited Kenrokuen numerous times over the year that we lived near Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture. This was the second time we went, accompanied by some family visiting from home...
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