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Day 5: Hie Shrine, Diet Building, Harajuku

by scukras7· October 04, 2018· in Japan (2018)· 1 comments
Today is the end of the first part of our trip before heading to Nagoya tomorrow late morning.  With that  said we had to take care of a few things before going out and exploring some more. Before we took care of the necessities, we had breakfast and today there were two elderly gentlemen sitting next to us and they asked where we came from.  When we said the states, one then told us he had spent a year there.  He asked us to guess how many miles he drove in that year on his motorcycle.  The answer… over 22000 miles.  He drove the four corners of the US and Canada from Alaska to San Diego, to Key West to Nova Scotia.  We then got to tell him where we had been in Japan and where we were headed this trip too.  He gave us some recommendations for our next trip here and all this provided more opportunities to try out more japanese.  At the end he had told us he traveled to the US in the 1970s and now he is 71 years old.  We thanked him for sharing his stories with us and when we left breakfast he […]
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