Okinawa

I'm going back to Japan, but I'm not returning to Osaka just yet. I'm headed for Okinawa!
Okinawa is conveniently located between Taiwan and Japan's Honshu island.

Taiwan

I'm leaving Japan to go on vacation. Guess where I'm going

I'm going to ... the Republic of China.

No, not this China

This one

I'm going to Taiwan!

Traveling to Tokyo

Today is December 21. Originally, I was scheduled to fly back to the U.S. on this day. Instead, I have a flight to Tokyo. I'm so happy I can spend more time in Japan!

I am completely moved out of my dorm. All of my belongings are either in storage or packed and here with me.

広島 / Hiroshima

There's a class about peace and democracy in Asia and every semester there's a field trip to Hiroshima to visit the peace museum and listen to a speech that an atomic bomb survivor gives. This field trip is optional and anyone at our university is welcome to join. The only thing the teacher organizes is reserving tickets for the bullet train to Hiroshima and scheduling the speech. I signed up to join the group. All that means is that I signed up and paid to take the bullet train to Hiroshima with the group. Everything else is up to the students, including the return trip. Some of my friends and I decided to go to Hiroshima and spend the weekend there.

We met early on Saturday morning. I heard that this semester, 88 exchange students joined the Hiroshima trip.

This isn't my first time on a bullet train (shinkansen). It took less than an hour and a half to go from Osaka to Hiroshima. The seats had a ton of leg room, and on this train you can also easily turn a row of seats to make them face in the opposite direction.