Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Japan

On Tuesday morning we left for Japan and took a high-speed boat. Our trek lasted three hours, and the water was smooth as ever. Fukuoka, Japan was our destination, a city of 1.33 million people. We made it to the Korean Embassy, to take care of our visa issue, and from there we attemted to see the sites. We've been to many foreign towns, but this one was difficult for us to manuever. There were a few nice souls who offered help, but the layout of the city was not user-friendly, and after about 4 hours of walking and seeing little, we gave up and headed back to our hotel. We did manage to take in an amazing shrine, and the map claimed there were more out there, but they were out of our reach.
This morning we went back to the Embassy bright and early to fetch our visas. Then we had a bit of time to kill so we walked around a mall, got some lunch, and got back on The Beetle (our small ship). We made it back to Korea in just under 3 hours, and our bus from Busan to Tongyeong brought us back home. We've traveled quite a bit lately and we plan to lay low this weekend!

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