Food
Forget the sushi, we’re going to McDonald’s
When traveling overseas, the last place one might think about eating at is McDonald’s. Sure, they have burgers, nuggets and fries like in the United States, but there are quite a few notable differences. The restaurant Unlike the restaurants in the United States, the ones in Kyoto don’t have drive-thrus. In addition, most people opt […]
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A first night in Tokyo like no other
Nearly everyone in our group has now made it to Japan safe and sound, and the first night is in the books. It was a night of new food, new friends, a new place and new memories. A lot has happened in just one night, and it is just the beginning. First stop: the hotel […]
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10 Best Foods We Ate In Japan
1. Chunky Chankonabe. While on a quest to find sumo wrestlers in Tokyo, a small group of students tried this famous soup in Sumida. Chankonabe is a traditional sumo stew that consists of various vegetables and protein. It’s quite delicious, but don’t eat too much if you don’t want to gain any more weight. Traditionally, […]
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The Must-Try Kyoto Dessert
KYOTO, Japan — It was quite an adventure for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication students in the Study Abroad trip to Japan to get to Kyoto from Tokyo. The students had to ride Nozomi Shinkansen (bullet train) for over an hour, and with great travel time comes great hunger. One group of four […]
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Food of the Sumo
On one of our unstructured (read: free) days, Emilee, Grant, Dylan, Jon, and I set off on a day-long journey to find some sumo wrestlers. We searched high and low, going everywhere from the sumo stables (where they train so, basically, a sumo gym) to the Ryogoku Kokugikan Sumo Arena, where most of the sumo […]
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