Written by Thimo & Andreas Today we departed from our relaxed appartments in Nikko and took the train to return back to the busy city of Tokyo. Here we had free time to roam around for a last time, buy some last minute gifts or make use of an onsen. It was a surreal feeling …
Written by Bram & Gialesi One group went for a hike up a mountain. This was not anything like we had done before. This became clear to us when we had to hand in a paper with the number of people in our group, our start and estimated finish time. Also, the number of Japanese …
Written by Stan & Zabiollah After waking up, packing my bags and checking out from the hostel, it was necessary that the group found a supermarket or convenience store to secure both breakfast and lunch. Breakfast, because the hostel only provided water, bread and a concoction that could only be called soup in the most …
Written by Bram & Mayke Today is one of the rare days where we could sleep in a little. To celebrate that, we started off with some all you can drink karaoke. Bram accidentally booked a private room at a different karaokebar, but after we promised he would get to sing his own songs he …
Written by Andreas & Morgan This morning we went to the Dutch embassy, which is located on Holland Hills, yes the Netherlands actually has some hills. We had some nice reflections about the differences in cultures we found. We were taught on what the Dutch embassy does in Japan and who to contact if we …
Written by Joel & Anne Today we had an early start to go to our first company visit of the day, Sumimoto Electric in Yokohama. We departed at 7 AM and got to witness the very busy metro and had to pack ourselves tighter than sardines in order to fit. At Sumimoto Electric we were …