Hello all,  We've been in Japan for almost a week now and we've slowly become accustomed to the crazy bustling ways of this country, if that's possible!  The first night took a little adjusting with nothing being familiar. The trek to our hostel covered both some crazy night market and the silence of a dark residential district. With s...

On Sunday, 11 November, we took the train to the Tokyo Motor Show. Bernd had been wanting to go, so we finally made it on the last day. This kind of thing isn't normally my cup of tea, but I figured it would be entertaining, as it's one of, if not the single largest car show in the world. It was definitely entertaining! The show was held in an E...

Monday- WHEEE! setting off form london! Via frankfurt, where we killed time walking up the down escalator and backwards along the forwards walkway, getting under the feet of stately German airport officials. Tuesday- Wandered around Tokyo Narita airport not sure which day it was, why we couldn't read the signs, and what that big sign lookin...

Konnichiwa, Thought I would let you know what I have been up to!! Monday - Have been for another look around this vast city and been up another tall building this time it was Japans equivalent to the Eifel Tower - but bigger 333meters high. Although the top viewing gallery was only at 250meters high! We also tried to look round the gardens of th...

Best piece of advice for those who travel to Japan - this is one country where that pesky little thing about packing less equalling more becomes a necessity. Japan has small streets and a large number of teeny stone stairs. Everywhere. It is virtually impossible to navigate with any more luggage than a handbag, as we found out very early on (bef...

Woke up around 10 or so somewhat rested. Nick and I had spent quite some time chatting and catching up instead of sleeping the night before...and so I didn't get as much rest as I should've. The heat and humidity also made it a bit difficult to sleep. We headed out to Tokyo by train (they go practically everywhere) and made it into Shinjiku arou...

Headed to Akihabara in the morning, Tokyo's electronic shopping district, with no intention of buying anything but being attracted to most things techy felt I should make the pilgrimage. Certainly tempting once there though not to part with Yen on a number of gizmos whose price (if I got my currency conversion correct in my head) was more than f...