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Japan Trip, day? Mito/Hitachanaka

Kathsgrdn
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago

The first full day in Mito, spent meeting my mom's middle brother, going to my grandparent's gravesites and Isamu's mother's. Short drive to Hitachinaka and on the coastline where Isamu told us how frightening the earthquake was in 2011. He said there were a lot of aftershocks too. Edited to add: In 2011 is when I tried to get back in touch with my mom's family. I was worried because of the tsunami that followed the massive earthquake. I hadn't known what happened to them since my mom passed away in 2004. All her information/addresses were thrown out by my dad after she died. I decided to write one of her friends who actually called my mom's family to tell them she had passed away. Slim chance, I thought, that she would've kept their phone number, but she not only had their phone number but Isamu's father's address. I wrote him and he answered back via one of his grandkids, one of Isamu's daughters. I totally forgot to ask him which one translated for us.


We then went to the aquarium in Hitachanaka, then we had ramen for lunch.

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