Last week, we had the pleasure of housing our good friend Josh for a week while he took a vacation to Japan. This was his first "adult" vacation since graduating from college and getting a job so he was very excited about it. And why wouldn't he be?! He got to stay for FREE in Japan with two awesome people! While it was a lot of fun to have him ( Read more... )

When I told my friend Ben that I was going to Chinatown, he was a bit confused as to why there was a Chinatown in Japan and why I couldn't just row a boat to China instead. Joking aside, this Chinatown is the biggest in Japan and developed starting in 1859 when Japan opened its ports to foreign trade. Now there are over 200 restaurants and numerous ( Read more... )