Golden Week Update!

So once again, it's been busy and I haven't been posting much lately. But one of the major things that has happened since my last post is Golden Week. This was in the first week of May, and my longtime friend from America came to visit! As I mentioned in my previous post, we had a very busy schedule and indeed we accomplished a lot during his 2 weeks here! Take a look via pictures!

Our trip started off down in Kyoto. We took an early morning bullet train there...which we just barely made by the way! We got to the station just as the train was arriving to take us up to Tokyo and we had only gotten 30 minutes of sleep the night before...literally! So we both passed out on the ride down to Kyoto. It was a great nap.

 We got there and enjoyed some of the sights. Gus also made some new friends who were drunk at 8am!










Our next stop was Hiroshima. This is us bonding with our new friends on Miyajima, or beautiful island translated. There are wild deer walking all over the island!

 We had to take a ferry to get to the island which was only about a 10 minute ride off the mainland.

 This is the famous shrine in the water...but it was covered up because of construction from a storm that had happened a month earlier...

 We made it to a baseball game! The Tokyo Giants vs. Hiroshima Carp

 Next on the agenda was a trip up to Nikko. There we saw many shrines/temples and also one of the top waterfalls in Japan!

 The last stop was a mountain in Chiba called Nokogiriyama (Sawtooth Mountain). It was a beautiful day outside and a great day for hiking!

 Some great sights from the top of the mountain!