In Sapporo we: saw the largest Shinto shrine in Hokkaido (northern island), saw a car being blessed, had traditional foods made by Yuki's mom, Tomoko, saw taiko drumming, went to the Olympic ski jump, went to Sapporo beer museum, went to Maruyama zoo, went to the local fish market, went to the beer gardens often, went to Nakajima park, ate yakitori.In Kyoto we: stayed at a ryokan (traditional Japanese guesthouse), used public bath (naked hot tub split by gender),...

Monday morning around 11 am we said goodbye to our families and headed to LAX. Our flight from LAX left that afternoon at 4 pm. 13 hours later we arrived in Taipei, Taiwan. We had a couple hours layover there which wasn't bad. We then left and 4 hours later we arrived in Bangkok. This was a bit of a teaser for us because although we will be living in Thailand, our first stop was actually Japan. So we went through customs and then turned right back around and re-e...