Ben Shaw

Review of Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Jap...

Spent 5 years here, stationed on the mighty USS Ge...

Spent 5 years here, stationed on the mighty USS George Washington, from March 2009 until March 2014. At first everything was very surreal and took pictures of everything! Then I hit a groove for a bit and then really finished out my tour exploring everything. I can now cross off many things on my bucket list thanks the US Navy and Japan. It was an honor to serve here and it was absolutely the experience of a lifetime. Get out! Explore Japan! Get lost! Don't take anything for granted or push anything to the side and say you'll get to it later. Time goes by so quickly and you'll realize, no matter how much you actually did, that there was still so much you didn't do. It's so safe, you can let your kids go off by themselves and really not have to worry about a thing. Japanese culture is so friendly and honest. Just be careful and don't forget to think about how much money you're spending, it's easy to pose track with "Monopoly money." I highly recommend this to anyone looking to get stationed here. You'll appreciate it so much when you look back at it.