We found the million dollar bathroom!

  By now you all know of my love for Japanese bathrooms, so when I heard that the Meguro Gajoen Hotel had a million dollar bathroom, I HAD to check it out!  Here is the beautiful entrance, so far so…

Yosakoi Festival, Harajuku; 5,000 dancers= Awesome!

The Yosakoi Festival is a dance competition held every year in Harajuku, featuring over 5,000 dancers (about 100 teams) from all over Japan. 5,000 dancers? You know I’m there! Yosakoi dance originated in Kochi City, Japan, which still boasts the…

The great Japanese truck stop- yes, GREAT!

 With one look at these nicely uniformed ladies, where do you think you are? A restaurant? A fancy hotel? The airport? NO, you are at a Japanese truck stop, of course! Being a military family, 10 to 12 hour road…

Another awesome public restroom

Today, my friend Merri and I, went to check out the Aeon Mall,  in the neighboring town of Hinode. We heard that they had a great play area for  kids, so what better activity for a rainy day. The play area was,…

A word about Japanese toilets…….

 I didn’t know about the world of fancy toilets until moving to Japan. Almost everywhere you go has a heated toilet seat (ahhhhh), bidet, music (to mask any embarrassing sounds), and many other functions! (On our first weekend here, Eva…


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