Thanksgiving trip to Kyushu 2022
It's hard to believe but this is our 3rd Thanksgiving in Japan. We like to travel over Thanksgiving because the Fall has such good weather and it's not a holiday in Japan so it tends to be less crowded. This year we decide to visit the southern island of Kyushu. We left Tuesday afternoon and took trains to the airport (2 hrs) then flew from Narita to Fukuoka (2 hr flight), arriving around 9pm. Our hotel was called Henn na Hotel (which means "strange" hotel in Japanese, but since I don't speak Japanese I didn't know that when I booked it... When we arrived at the front desk we were greeted by two anamatronic dinosaurs who spoke fluent Japanese, welcomed us, and tried to help us check in. But as often happens when we travel it was not straightforward and eventually an actual person had to come out from behind the wall and help us get checked in. The next day we headed out into the rain walking to the rental car location. That went very smoothly and we had a ve...