Day 6- Sweet Osaka! Our commute to Osaka would be less than ideal. Our bags seem to have doubled in weight and it was raining. Many of the train stations do not have elevators, so between the three stations we were forced to carry our luggage up and down countless flights of stairs. We arrived at Tokyo station to find out that all of the Shinken...

I had slept comfortably, content that our Japan experience had covered much and more of what we'd set out to do. In the morning we said our goodbyes to Ido-san at Hotel Taiyo and to Mike, who was leaving Japan out of Tokyo later that day. There was a touch of emotions as we used our rail passes for the last time. My rail pass now resembles an an...

This blog entry is a real strain on the memory banks since a) I never got to write anything in my diary for the day and b) I've put off writing anything for more than 2 months now. Hopefully the readers of this blog have either been extremely patient or have given up caring a long time ago. Dave and I got up nice and early for some stupid reason...

Today was meant to be the day we'd check out Fuji-san but Mike had picked up a bad cough and I felt ill from something I ate the day before. So instead Dave and I took it easy and went to have a look at Osaka's Kita (north) area, where the main CBD is. We got bored of that quick. The underground shopping was nothing we hadn't seen before in the ...

Today was the day we returned to Osaka from Sapporo. 4 trains: Sapporo to Goryokaku, to Hachinohe, to Tokyo, to Osaka. 13.5hrs travel time. In the morning Dave found out that his camera's LCD was buggered (after a few too many drops). The camera itself was still working, but you had no idea what the shot would look like until later (how we survi...

Today Dave and I were to do Mt.Hakodate and the city, while Mike would do the Onuma Quasi-National Park. Mike's hangover was worse than usual, and he was in a particularly bad mood. Yet as soon as we got outside, Mike started dancing (yes, dancing. I have the videos to prove it) with his umbrella in the rain - and I thought I had the guy all wor...

[These entries are exactly what Jar wrote in his diary. Grammar mistakes and hentai thoughts included.] Today's weather was forecast as 17º but it felt much hotter. Osaka was very foggy {smoggy?} when we arrived. Their airport is one of those 'out in the bay' ones that look like you're going to land in the water. First impressions were that the ...