{"id":208,"date":"2025-06-06T14:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/?p=208"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:41:14","slug":"208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/2025\/06\/06\/208\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The program has been a lot of fun so far. I&#8217;ve become very familiar with Nagoya at this point, and I&#8217;m pretty confident at navigating the city. Our excursions have taken us to a lot of places I wouldn&#8217;t have found otherwise, and one of my favorite things to do has been to walk without a plan and see what I find.<\/p>\n<p>The food here is really amazing, and I&#8217;ve already fallen into having favorite regular spots to eat. The convenience stores and supermarkets are pretty great too. I&#8217;ve been eating a lot of baked goods.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights so far have been stumbling into a temple, going to the Higashiyama Sky Tower, and accidentally finding a cosplay event in Sakae.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to practice my Japanese more in Kyoto.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-209\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4119-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4119-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4119-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4119-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4119-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4119-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-210\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4497-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4497-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4497-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4497-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4497-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4497-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-211\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4257-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4257-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4257-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4257-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4257-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4257-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The program has been a lot of fun so far. I&#8217;ve become very familiar with Nagoya at this point, and I&#8217;m pretty confident at navigating the city. Our excursions have taken us to a lot of places I wouldn&#8217;t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/2025\/06\/06\/208\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}