Sunday, April 30, 2017

A Trip to Japan



Being able to travel off peak travel times is one of the best things about homeschooling. We managed to get ourselves some last minute tickets to Japan in April, and were able to take a quick trip there. Cherry Blossoms were blooming and Sakura Day happened while we were there, and we walked on the grounds of the Palace in Ueno Park to see the blossoms falling from the trees.



Japanese culture is very different from ours. As a writing and research project, our daughter was assigned the project of taking photos of, and writing an essay about, all the differnt and novel kinds of food she encountered there. We took a few trips to the grocery store, ate at a variety of restaurants, including a ramen place, a shabu-shabu restaurant, a sushi restaurant, a bakery and a yakitori place. Tokyo is full of amazing restaurants.

We organized for a local teenage girl to show our daughter to all the special "cafes" with animals that are all over Tokyo--the Cat Cafe, the Hedgehog Cafe, the Bird Cafe. There is a huge kawaii culture in Japan--the culture of cute! Even the dogs in Japan are cuter than dogs anywhere else.



I want to go back next year! our daughter exclaimed.

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