Jason's Adventures in rural Japan Never Ending Voyage Top 5 guide: Kyoto 1st January 2012 Kyoto is your romantic vision of Japan: think geisha, temples and tea shops. Wanderlust helps you uncover the city’s many secrets It was such a cliché it could have been a scene from a film. Across the narrow and fast-flowing river was a brightly lit restaurant; in the window sat a group of wealthy looking Japanese with two immaculately made-up maiko – apprentice geisha – joining them in an age-old tradition. Meanwhile, a geiko (as geisha are called in Kyoto) scurried purposefully past me, a white parasol protecting her from the light rain shower. In truth, Kyoto can be a bit of an anticlimax when you first arrive at the station, fresh off the shinkansen bullet train. But then you find there is a surprise around every corner, from fortune-telling machines (I got told to avoid travel – whoops...) to a tiny local shrine covered in offerings and a small woodblock museum with idiosyncratic hours (“Open when I wake up and close when I must go to sleep”). Secret worlds 1. 2. 3.
The Roofs of Kathmandu | Adventures in Nepal nepali jiwan Mind Fields | Complex stories of ground-breaking ideas, in Africa and beyond Applying for the JET Program with Jason and his Argonauts There’s a Japan-related video blogger named Jason who is living in rural Japan thanks to the JET program (which is a program that sends English speakers to Japan to teach English). I know a lot of you have expressed interest in the JET program either through e-mails to me or comments, but since I don’t really know anything about the JET program, I thought I’d share with you someone who does. Jason has taken the time to take you through the JET program, video by video (that way you don’t have to read!) Personally, I’m not that interested in JET, but I’m guessing some of you are. Getting the Application [yframe url=' Don’t Procrastinate! [yframe url=' Who Does JET Want? [yframe url=' Picking Your Location [yframe url=' More on the Application [yframe url=' The Letter of Intent [yframe url=' Send it In! The JET Programme homepage