I’m combining days 6 and 7 of our trip into one post here since we’ve mostly been hanging out with my friend who flew in from Korea, who we’ve not seen since he left the US 2 years ago.  However, here’s what we’ve been up to the past two days. Arriving in Nagoya: October 5th we left Shinjuku to Nagoya by bullet train, which was about 1 hour 45 minutes, once we got to Nagoya station we made a quick transfer to a subway line and to our local station in Kanayama.  We had a little time to burn before our room would be ready to check into so we grabbed lunch in the nearby area.  We both had gyumeshi, which was a shredded beef on rice which was very good.  By this time it was very apparent Nagoya does not receive as many visitors as Tokyo due to the very noticeable lack of english signage and use thereof, which made for more use of our japanese. Nagoya Science Museum: We then checked in and set out to explore Nagoya before our friend arrived from Korea.  We first set out to go to the Nagoya Science Museum, since it has […]
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