Today we woke up and met our friend at a Starbucks at Kanayama Station before he left back to Korea.  We had just gotten our breakfasts and sat down and were talking for a few minutes when the whole building and ground shook!  Everyone in the building was looking around to see what just happened since all the tables and chairs shook since it came from nowhere.  It was Sara’s and my first earthquake.  It was a 4.8 magnitude 7.5 miles from Nagoya: Our friend said, “Now you’ve experienced it all in Japan… typhoons… earthquakes…”  It only lasted a few seconds, but felt like the ground rolled on itself, lifted and then set back in place.  Everyone just went right on where they left off when it finished. After we finished eating we said goodbye to our friend and we made our way to Osu Mall and the Osu Kannon Shrine near it.  We had a few hours to kill before our train took us to Kyoto.  The mall was a covered, open air mall with various shops and restaurants in it.  We purchased a magnet, representing our visit to Nagoya.  We then stopped at the shrine which was extremely […]
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