We experienced our first Yokota Friendship Festival, earlier this month, and it was an amazing event! Every year the base opens the gates to our Japanese friends for a weekend, so they can experience the base and see the airplanes. Being…
A few weeks ago, our town Fussa, along with the Fussa Dog restaurant set out to break a Guinness World Record in hot dogs. They needed to set up at least 250 meters of hot dogs, lined up end to end. There…
We attended our first Japanese festival last night, the Fussa Tanabata Festival, held in our town. The Japanese have hundreds of festivals every year, usually celebrating some different spiritual event. The tanabata festival means “festival of the stars”. The streets were…
Since arriving at Yokota Air Base, we purchased a new (to me) Japanese car. It is a Toyota FunCargo. It looks very small, but is actually pretty roomy on the inside. We quickly learned that the smaller the car the…
I can’t even begin to describe Joyful Honda! It is like a Home Depot, JoAnn’s Crafts, Petsmart, grocery store, Walmart and food court all rolled up into one! It is enormous! The girls especially loved all the pets. Moving walkways,…
The girls and I found this fun city park with a climbing contraption and some really fun roller slides. They said the rollers hurt their bottoms, but continued to slide over and over again anyway. I have since heard that…
After being stuck on base with no transportation,until we passed our Japanese driving test (more on that later), we were anxious to get out and explore the surrounding town, Fussa Tokyo. Last Saturday, we walked to the train station with…
We made it!! After a very long flight, we finally landed at Yokota Air Base, our new home. The first thing that struck us was how green everything is here! Also, the heat and humidity was just STIFLING! Like stepping…