We woke up at 4:30am on August 12th and jumped on the MAX train for Union Station in Portland. We arrived at Union Station 45 minutes before the departure time of our train to Eugene. So it was too early to go inside the station.. We went …

Everything was canceled today, due to the big Typhoon is coming to Kansai area.

We stayed at Best Western hotel in Wilsonville. The day started with a short drive for Portland and we returned the rental car down town. We looked around down town on foot and by public transportation. The down town of Portland was clean,…

At around 10AM, we checked out of the hotel and headed downtown in Portland by light rail (MAX). It was easy access to downtown, just a 30 minutes train ride from the airport to union station. It was really nice public transportation. In d…

It's raining in this morning in Sendai. The weather news said it will be raining today and tomorrow in Fukushima. It's too bad.

I'm coming to Sendai by ferry boat. Now, it's fine day, however it will be bad weather in this week in Fukushima. I hope it will be fine day.....

Our trip started flying for Tokyo (Haneda) on Tuesday (9/August) by ANA, and then we changed to Delta airlines for Los Angelas. Delta airlines had cancelled and delayed flights on 8/Monday (New York time) all over the world, due to loss of…