Palace Hotel Tokyo Chiyoda

... there was even a woman model getting raped by a dog. It sounds really terrible, but for some reason Sean and I thought it was so strange that it was funny. There was some guy at the glass case, too, taking a look. But I`ll steer clear of some of the less savory details.<br><br>In shop with the woman-dog coupling, there were a lot of models that were dressed as movie characters, which Sean and I were pretty amazed at - they looked very ...

... and very pointy cowboy boots. They looked as if they had just left a very windy Bon Jovi concert circa 1985. <br><br>The Japanese people are incredibly polite and helpful. Within seconds of us stopping to look at a map or getting the guidebook out, someone would appear from nowhere and would try to help us. (Or maybe it was because we looked particularly pathetic and helpless!) If they couldn't explain in English where we needed to go, they would show us the ...

... of the English guy with the Death Note shirt we saw in Harajuku the next day), a very ugly expensive little statue of L (Death Note is an anime me and Chris like and something from the show was requested as a souvenir by a friend of mine). Chris looked at that floor more than I did, I found some chairs by the elevator and me and my tired feeties took a little break. We went back to hunting down the cafe, which turned out to be closer than we thought. Once we found it we felt a little ...

... days of the initerary, and our remaining finances. It finally hit home that the next leg of our journey, which was to be Hakone and Takayama, were going to cost us more in accomodation than virtually all of the rest of the trip combined. We had planned to stay in a Ryokan in Hakone for $420 per night, and when we weighed up the cost of the Ryokan room to the cost of the hotel we are staying in now, at ...

... of seafood being exchanged at the Tokyo fish market. Honestly though after about an hour and a half I couldn't take it anymore. I've been traveling for a year and this is the first thing in a long time that truly overwhelmed me so much I had to leave. I don't think I have ever seen that many dead (or dying) animals. Still it's a must see and one of those things that you can never comprehend unless you see it. Even once I saw it, I still can't ...

... prave do dneska, inak ma deportuju z krajiny v klietke tahanej zaprahom svin cez ulicku hanby, kde na mna budu ukazovat prstami a vysmievat ma, ti odvaznejsi ma aj opluju. Ked som sa v polke cesty TX strhol z driemania, zistil som, ze vlak je plny Japoncov cestujucich v rannej spicke do prace v Tokyu. Bol som nesmierne rad, ze sedim, pretoze v tej tlacenici by bolo nadludskym vykonom aj poskrabanie sa na nose. Nastastie ma gaijin oproti Japoncom ...

... Breakfast was nothing spectacular, but sitting on the tatamis sipping tea with everyone in their robes was a neat experience. Proceeding breakfast, I ventured around the small garden and checked my e-mail. Once everyone was packed up and we had taken pictures, we embarked for the station where we caught taxis to Sharp. The visit to Sharp was pretty much a giant tour. Led by a cute English speaking tour guide, the first leg of the tour traced the evolution of Sharp from the ...

... with my far too heavy backback digging into my hips... i can still feel the grazes and it's Weds night. Then we went for lunch. and i was sick. again. but the weather was lovely, and we spent a while in the gardens trying to work out why you never see any pregnant women in Japan. So that was my weekend in Tokyo... photos to follow when i get a different pooter somewhere. and i will tell you about Sydney later in the week.......

... The main intersection fills with 500 people when the walk light turns green. This is not one of my exaggerations. It's a giant mesh of people from all directions that fill the streets until you can't see the street and then they all somehow get across and the cars have room to drive again. We walk through the streets absorbing the frenetic scene. This is the style capital of Tokyo with the guys having the look of brit pop stars, sort of ...

... beer tastier and it was nice to be with someone who spoke the language. I didn't feel at the mercy of those around or the running joke for anyone watching. To state the obvious, the two of us stick out like a sore thumb and the whole trip will be a definite lesson in how to be the minority. So, tomorrow it is off to Kyoto for a few days and then on to China. The weather here has been sticky and hot and the cost is out of control, so I will definitely be ready to move on.