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Trip to Yugawara Video

on December 10, 2020

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Toudoukan, Gatoh Move & Yokohama

This week marks exactly one month that I have lived in Japan. It feels more like 6 months but hey, I made it a month. I finally was able to get a gym membership at a gym that is one block from my apartment. This place has everything, but i'm not allowed in the pool or saunas because of my tattoos. So I have the basic package of a weight room and a basic machine room. After one workout, I am incredibly sore. I have maintained active and worked out in my apartment almost every day but a month removed from weight training has me feeling dead. For the 3rd weekend in a row, I spent all day Sunday in Tokyo. First I went to Toudoukan, a large wrestling store. It's famous for wrestling fans and I could spend all day there. I had a lot of plans for my day so unfortunately I couldn't do that. I did pick up quite the haul of random Japanese wrestling merch. After that, I explored the area around Suidobashi, popping into a couple more wrestling shops before I made my way to Ichiga...

June Update: 6 Months Down

Hey everyone, long time no post. So June 21st makes it officially 6 months in Japan for me, which means I only have 6 more months to go until I'm back in America! Things at work have gotten better but can still be stressful at times. Now that the national state of emergency was lifted on June 1st, I have finally been able to see my friends and do a little traveling. I was only in Japan for 5 or 6 weeks when the state of emergency hit and I didn't really have any friends yet so March, April & May were very lonely. There were many times I was trying to find figure out a way back to America because it was getting very depressing. Luckily, I was able to make a few friends online during the shutdown so when June came around, we were able to hang out for the first time. On June 1st, I traveled to Kawasaki, Japan and met my friend Lena. We spent the day at Kawasaki Daishi, a massive Buddhist Temple founded in 1182. After that, she showed me around Kawasaki. The next day, I...

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