Sumo
3 Favorite Areas in Tokyo
Throughout this journey across the globe, we got to see so many unique areas of Tokyo, and each of them were completely different than the other. Anywhere you go Tokyo (or even Japan, really) will feel like new compared to where you started. Being able to get to explore these different areas and neighborhoods, you […]
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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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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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10 Most Instagrammable Spots in Tokyo
If you’re traveling to Tokyo, one of the main challenges that you’re going to face (besides jet lag, perhaps a language barrier, etc.) will be trying to see all that you can. You’ll be walking a lot, but fear not; Tokyo has a fast, immaculate subway system that’s not difficult to navigate (if I can […]
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