We woke a little nervous early on this Saturday morning. We had one day left to take our day trip to Yamadera from Sendai. If we couldn’t make it out today we would miss our chance on this vacation. The previous day’s high winds had cancelled all the trains running between Sendai and Yamagata, the…

Part 1 of episode 14 left us struggling with a dilemma as we came across what appeared to be a grocery store on our way to Rinnō-ji Temple. We love checking out grocery stores wherever we travel, but we were running out of daylight and as it would turn out, made the wise decision to…