Visa Run to Fukuoka Japan

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This post is quite a bit late! I finished my teaching contract at I Kids’ Park on Feb 10th. Nancy won’t finish her contract until the end of March. So I had to fly over to Japan to come back into Korea on a tourist visa. So I flew over on February 17th. I got held up at immigration because my visa was apparently seven days expired. They held me for about 40 minutes and gave me some harsh looks. They made me sign a paper saying that I was a bad boy and that I acknowledge my law breaking and then they stamped me and sent me on my way.

I stayed at the Guest House Kaine. It was only ¥2500 per night ($25) which is really cheap for Japan! The accomodations were clean and had a hip modern style. In the front of the guest house was a small restaurant. I ate dinner there, a yummy tempura udon, with Yohei and we had a couple of beers together. Yohei worked at the front desk and was really cool and made my night a very good one because he spoke English the whole time. Otherwise I would have done a lot of people watching and thinking.

The next morning I woke up early and wandered around the city a bit snapping some photos before catching the subway back to the airport. The plane flight was only a one hour direct flight and they even gave me some nuts and drinks. 🙂 I got held up at immigration again upon rentry because of my previous expired visa crime. I did get to go to the ambassador window though! They held me there for a while, which was visibly annoying to some  important people in that line behind me. Eventually they gave me a hard stare and stamped me in, as Borat would say, “Very nice!”