Daiwa Roynet Hotel Shinyokohama

I woke up in the hostel today to construction going on outside and banging pots and pans in the kitchen adjacent to my room. I needed to get up though. I checked out of the hostel but left my bags there so I didn't have to haul them around all day and headed to the famous Tsukiji fish market. The fish market is most active around 5am when all the fishermen are bringing in there catches but I got there during clean up. I saw the biggest ...

... the ones who put the rope up. Needless to say, I did not hang out too long. I felt very uncomfortable. I thought that was a pretty crazy little cultural difference. There would be a lawsuit or something if anyone tried to pull that in the USA. I checked out the Buddha after lunch and took the train home. I'm beat and ready to meet Ryan for dinner. Poor guy works all day while I go see Japan. We are hoping to have some great fun together this weekend in Tokyo.

... took one of my shoes....then one of the girls (the little american girl who likes attention) threw my shoe into the forrest.....LOL It was actually quite funny. They came to me saying...we can't find it. Yuki came up to me (she is around 6) and with a sad but cute face said "what will you do without your shoe?? " She went to look for it and was the cutest thing ever. Actually the entire crew of kids went on a detective adventure to find my shoe in the forrest. Haha! We ...

... The damn thing was closed and still smelled so good. Nearly drove me insane. So far all the Japanese have been both polite and helpful. They also all expect me to speak or at least understand Japanese. I need a hat with "Gaijin" written on it! We're staying in a newish backpacker's hostel. It's small and cosy with very nice staff who appear multilingual. The lady behind the counter even wished me "Selamat malam" when she found we had come from Malaysia. Left me feeling ...

... fashioned and had beautiful shrines/temples. My favorite city was Hiroshima because everything had so much history. We arrived in Hiroshima on the third evening, and walked around the city before deciding to stay in our first hotel. The nights previous to this we had been staying in Hostels. That night we went and walked around the city. We were able to see the Peace Park and A Bomb dome at night. Immediately I knew that this was going to be an eye ...

... need for a month. The airport is quiet, except for the American Airlines counter where I am checking in for my flight. While in line I email my girlfriend (who is to meet me in Tokyo) and inform her that I am getting ready to check in and will soon be on my way. She emails her response immediately: "good luck". Unfortunately, it was not a lucky day. Upon handing my passport to the American Airlines agent, I was informed that my flight had been cancelled due to bad ...

... if we can drink water yet) and headed off to look for dinner. We hit a strip with a ton of restaurants, all of which are very small and seat only about 10-15 people in each. Most consist of ¡§bar¡¨ style eating where the chef serves you from behind a bar rather than at waited tables. They are all very elegant looking and seem delicious to me. Chris looks concerns because all of the menus outside are in Japanese kanji characters only! There is definitely ...

... 3 times and make a wish. I forgot to ask what the significance of the 3-claps is for. I guess I will have to look it up when get back. The unfortunately thing about the whole morning was that it started to rain harder as the day went by. We were soaking wet despite of having umbrellas. Worse by cloth shoes were soaking wet and felt very uncomfortable. The silver lining to all of this was the fact that there was nobody at the monuments. This made it easy ...

... so trendy. All the woman have cute hair, jewelry, and heels. I was shocked I kind of felt like I was in Dallas. I went to look in a shoe store though to get some of there cute shoes and I couldn't fit because all there feet are ninny sized. Well we found this little like pub restaurant and sat down and have some drinks and lunch. It was like a restaurant but only had like five seats. It reminded me of a hole in the wall that Ryan ...

... told me that this was the Children's Cemetary. Each statue represented a child that had passed away. There were so many to pass, it made me quite sad. There was one statue that had a blue polar fleece jacket on so I knew it must have been from the child who had died. I wasn't quite sure what to feel walking through this place, on the one hand it is just so tragic seeing these graves but on the other hand it was very special and quite ...