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Traveling Around: Japan
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Can you relate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Traveling around on trains using the Japanese Rail Pass, and having unlimited access for the entire trip.
\n\u2022 Enjoying the beauty of cherry blossoms, called \u2018sakura\u2019 in Japanese.
\n\u2022 Paying good money for a few pieces of delicious fatty tuna sushi. Worth every penny!
\n\u2022 Being offered dessert from a kind group of Japanese young people, after they catch us checking out their food.
\n\u2022 Having a group photo, soon after, with this same group of young people.
\n\u2022 Seeing Hello Kitty everywhere!
\n\u2022 Noticing that everything is so darn cute in Japan.
\n\u2022 Walking for miles in search for the perfect bowl of tempura.
\n\u2022 Wondering what is going on when every few people you see are wearing medical masks, and discovering that though some people wear them when they are sick, others wear them to hide a blemish or their emotions!
\n\u2022 Entering a store dedicated entirely to chopsticks, some running in the hundreds of dollars.
\n\u2022 Visiting Kyoto in hopes of seeing at least one, elusive geisha, and being lucky enough to see one after another, after another.
\n\u2022 Walking around to look at all of the beautiful temples, and constantly being passed by fast walking, little old ladies, who may even be in their 90\u2019s! There\u2019s longevity in this country.
\n\u2022 Watching some very strange TV programs while in the hotel room. Was it a game show, a reality show, a talk show?\u00a0 It was all in Japanese, so who knows!
\n\u2022 Walking around the bottom \ufb02oor a fancy department store, which was devoted all to food, including perfectly wrapped strawberries which cost about $50, and a watermelon which cost $100.
\n\u2022 Taking the train to Osaka just for dinner.
\n\u2022 Spending the last night in the Tokyo neighborhood of Shibuya, and trying to cross the busiest intersection in the world.
\n\u2022 Asking myself, since I live in Korea, why it has taken me three years before visiting Japan?<\/p>\n

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Currently we have 39 international schools listed in Japan on International School Community.<\/a> Here are a few that have had comments and information submitted on their profile pages:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hiroshima International School<\/a> (23 Comments)
\n\u2022 Canadian Academy (Kobe)<\/a> (10 Comments)
\n\u2022 Kyoto International School <\/a> (14 Comments)
\n\u2022\u00a0Nagoya International School <\/a> (12 Comments)
\n\u2022 American School in Japan<\/a> (20 Comments)
\n\u2022 Seisen International School <\/a> (33 Comments)
\n\u2022 Horizon Japan International School<\/a> (9 Comments)
\n\u2022 St. Mary’s International School <\/a> (14 Comments)<\/p>\n

If you are on a trip right now, away from your host country, write to us at\u00a0admin@internationalschoolcommunity.com<\/a>\u00a0with your “Can you relate?” traveling experiences.\u00a0 Tell us where you are traveling in the world, what you are seeing and how you are coping with any culture shock.\u00a0 Once your Traveling Around\u00a0experience is posted on our blog, International School Community will give\u00a06 free months of premium membership<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around: Japan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Can you relate? \u2022 Traveling around on trains using the Japanese Rail Pass, and having unlimited access for the entire trip. \u2022 Enjoying the beauty of cherry blossoms, called \u2018sakura\u2019 in Japanese. \u2022 Paying good money for a few pieces of delicious fatty tuna sushi. 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