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Semester at Sea: Independent Travel in Japan (Part 2)

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*I’m going to apologize in advance for the lack of photos as I lost many of my photos from my travel in Japan in an unfortunate situation in Beijing (but that’s a story for another day).

Independent Travel

After finishing up my tour of Yokohama and Tokyo with Semester at Sea (which you can read about in part 1 of my Japan posts) on my second day of travel in Japan, my plan was to meet up with a group of friends in the city. However, my afternoon did not go as smoothly as I had anticipated. One of my friends had a cell phone that worked internationally which I was to call when I reached Tokyo Station so we could arrange where to meet.

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Semester at Sea: Exploring Japan (Part 1)

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Yokohama skyline while Poky Little Wanderer was exploring Japan
Views of Yokohama, Japan from the ship

The second port on my Semester at Sea voyage was Japan, which was also the first international port. Having only traveled out of North America for my family’s trip to Ireland, I was both really excited and really nervous to land on the shores of a new country and continent. We had five days exploring Japan, an island nation and cultural titan. Since I wrote so much about this country, I’ve broken it up into a couple parts.

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