After visiting the Former Hokkaido Government Building and the Sapporo Beer Museum, we made our way to the Sapporo TV Tower next. It is definitely a must visit and the view of Odori Park is amazing, especially during winter!! The TV tower was built in 1957 by Tachū Naitō, a Japanese architect who is famous for building the Tokyo Tower was well. After we[...]
After visiting the historic Hokkaido Government Building we headed over to the Sapporo Beer Museum. We may or may not have arrived early-ish in the morning (haha!) and felt silly drinking beer so early. I didn't even think about it when I planned our schedule (oops).. but oh well it was 5 o'clock somewhere, am I right? Anyways, the Sapporo Beer Museum is[...]
The time has finally come to share about our fabulous Winter Wonderland trip to Sapporo and Nagano. We decided to attend the Sapporo Snow Festival, and while we were at it, visit the Jigokudani Monkey Park to see the famous snow monkeys of Japan! First things first... SAPPORO! We arrived to Sapporo at night.. so on our first full day in the city we explor[...]
After 4 years in Okinawa I FINALLY made it to Bise Village! My friend Allison and I drove all the way up to Motobu for a photographer meet up for the annual Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photowalk on October 1st, 2016. It ended up being kind of awkward... every one was walking so slow that we got frustrated and ended up breaking away from the group to explore on o[...]
After walking around Peace Memorial Park and the Peace Memorial Museum, we visited the Himeyuri Peace Museum which is only a 13 minute drive away. The museum is dedicated to the Lily Corps, a group of 222 students and 18 teachers from the Okinawa Daiichi Women’s High School and Okinawa Shihan Women’s School who served as nurses for the Japanese Imperial[...]
After spending a week in the Tokyo area with friends, we flew back home and Katie (who lives in Yokosuka now) came down with us! We visited the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum and Park down in Itoman, followed by the Himeyuri Peace Museum. The Peace Memorial Park is located in Mabuni Hills, where the Battle of Okinawa came to an end in 1945. W[...]