Fortunes, Fermented Rice Drinks and a Public Transportation Fail

Nina Washington
5 min readJan 5, 2020

The makings of an epic New Year’s Day!

Shimogama-Jinja Shrine in Kyoto, Japan

As my travel schedule would have it, I arrived in Kyoto, Japan 2 days before the start of 2020. In my “real life”, the one I left behind to travel the world for a year, NYE would usually consist of concerts, house parties, or trips to new countries or cities — all in the name of ringing in the new year! Now residing…

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Nina Washington

World Traveler. Peds Rheumie doc. Lover of life & its lessons. I write to inspire, entertain, and educate! Follow on IG: @docwash11