Super Hotel JR Ueno Iriyaguchi Taito

... next to a nepalese women who couldnt speak much english or japanese. i had to fill out her arrival card for her!

anyway arrived in tokyo and the lines are massive... it took a while to get out of the airport.... heaps of walking from the gate to customs as well... anyways jumped on a train to Shinjuku where i was staying dropped my bags off at the hotel and went for a wander around the place.. everything is so massive, the buildings the signs ...

... as it does... it's easier for me to explain in person so if you're interested, ask me. After the tour, we headed back to the hotel and grabbed a quick lunch and an hour of R&R (or for me, Facebook time and a great quick chat w/Lyn before she went off to bed). Then we walked over to McCann's Tokyo office (ad agency headquartered in the US). They gave two great presentations (my favorite so far - by a landslide). Off to the restaurant with the ...

... already in Monster snoring mode. Some nights I lay in bed and I can completely understand how people smother someone in their sleep just for a bit of quiet. Lol. Almost the minute after pressing the save button, Phil woke up and wanted to have a wander round for a supermarket to see what things cost and get something for dinner. We set off out of our hotel and it had just started lightly raining. We found a couple of supermarkets and the prices were ridiculous ...

Getting up at 4:30 A.M. to go to IAH was no fun, especially having to haul my luggage. The early wake-up call was necessary though because it took a long time for all of us to get checked in. I was barely within the limits with a 49 and a 50 lb bag. The flight to Detroit wasn't bad. There, at the airport, a group of girls and I had our "last American meal" at this hamburger place. On the other hand, our plane ride from Detroit to Narita sucked ...

... which change to raised dots at corners or the edge of the train platform. These are so the visually impaired can navigate using a cane. For the rest of us, they add an extra hazard to walking in high heels or riding a bicycle. Another thing that struck me was that instead of a big red STOP sign, many intersections have "TOMARE" written on the pavement itself. On bigger streets with several lanes, you get directions and ...

... to stop the spread of the illness. Simple idea but effective. PETROL STATIONS - A lot of petrol stations had petrol pumps coming from the ceiling. BIKES - Riding bikes on pavements is the done thing over here - not as easy as it sounds having nearly crashed into 50 pedestrians in Kyoto. TOUCH SCREEN MENUS - Experienced on my last night in Tokyo a touch screen menu in the restaurant we were eating, so to order more food and drinks, just touch the screen.

... of sea chanties and fetched lunch at an expensive place that felt an awful lot like Denny's, but was not. Afterwards was a delightful winding bus trip back to a train station, where we picked up our luggage that we had forwarded there the previous night. Then, back on the train, bound for Tokyo. Dazed and confused, we stumbled out of the Tokyo train station, and we realized quickly that we had very little clue where the hostel actually was. This was a minor setback ...

... dovuto ad una propria elaborazione personale secondo tanti aspetti differenti legati a modelli, aspirazioni, ispirazioni, limiti, affetti e chissa` che altro. Abbiamo ragionato molto negli ultimi giorni, e, senza andare ulteriormente nel particolare il prodotto e` questo: Fine del Viaggio.... o quasi. Da qui la Tailandia e`molto vicina e non farebbe male a nessuno dei due di passare un paio di settimane al sole a prezzi economicissimi prima di tornare in Europa. Stiamo ...

... way to Kamakura was insane. A 100km or so trip took about 3.5hours. And when we got there this very old little town's main street was so congested it was simply impossible for Rookie to park. So Grant, Shaz and I went in, saw the Buddha, had an ice cream and then jumped back in Rookie's still-moving car. The trip home was much better, and it was great to drive past the incredible sprawling port of Yokohama. That afternoon we went to ...

... met two monks that had the day off. It was 9am and they were plastered. The Monk nearest me spoke some English and we had an interesting conversation with them which involved answering a lot of the same questions 3 or 4 times. Did I mention they were drunk monks? We also watched a sushi chef take two live fish out of the tank, cut off the head of each fish, and turn it into sushi before the head ...