JP2024 (Cody Nguyen)

Exploring Shinjuku District   Our hotel that we were staying in the previous few days is located in the Shinjuku District of the Tokyo City, but in those three days of exploring Tokyo we did not spend very much time actually looking around Shinjuku- we’d spend the first several hours of this day giving Shinjuku […]

Visiting a Fish Market (And dying of heat stroke) So our first full day of exploring Tokyo was definitely something interesting- we visited the Japanese Burj Khalifa, saw a few religious sites, the biggest collection of mice and headphones on Earth (enough to give my little brother a run for his money). Can everything from

Metro System + Imperial Palace Okay, so this is quite surprising, but I actually didn’t sleep for as long as you’d expect. I was losing it the night before – feeling like I  might collapse on the floor because of sleep deprivation at any second- unable to process everything I was seeing, there was a

LAX to Haneda   The ten-hour flight across the Pacific had begun, and we were racing down the runway at a speed that continued to get faster and faster. I started to feel more gravity work on me, and pretty soon we were in the air, racing in the direction of the ocean. I could