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It is incredibly difficult to make a top 10 list in the heat of the moment. Almost every day on the trip I found something I loved, so by the end of my trip, there'd be many items from the early part of the journey that'd be missing from the list. Now that I've given myself a few weeks to decompress and look back on the trip as a whole, I've come up with a top 10: 10. Sapporo Is it fair to write down an entire city? This is my list, so I say yes! Sapporo was tied for the shortest stay with Nagoya, both of which lasting only 19 hours, so the way I see it, you can do what I did in Sapporo in a single day trip. The three main tourist attractions in the city are all grouped very close together, Odori Park was a beautiful snow covered stretch, plenty of shopping and food to go around as well. Sapporo is at the top of my list for cities I want to see again, mostly based on that I wasn't able to spend much time there. Sapporo TV Tower, Clocktower, and Government O...

January 15. Instagram Woke up way too early in the morning for how much fun we had last night, but it's a 6am train out of Nara up to Kyoto, and then a train from Kyoto to Shin-Osaka, and another train from there to Hiroshima. All of my trains for the past week have been well under a two hour commute, and if I kept to my original plan, that would also be the case today, but in total it was around 3 hours of commuting and train hopping before my arrival in Hiroshima. My hotel is diagonal across the street from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Museum, and as I knew coming into today, it was going to be an emotionally heavy day. I dropped my bags at the hotel, and walked my way across the street to the Museum and Park, and prepared myself for tears, because I knew they'd be coming. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, a single atomic bomb destroyed the majority of the city, and was responsible for the death of 90,000-170,000 people, and in...