Caught the (too) early bus today to Nikko Toshogu Shrine. It is World Heritage Listed and is amazing. We weren’t allowed to take photos inside of it, but here’s the entrance to it After we left we went to a restaurant and had a traditional Japanese lunch. Don’t ask me what it was, all i [...]
Headed off to Shinjuku Station today so we could catch the train to Sensoji Temple. Wandered around here for a while and saw a parade of some sort. Weather was a bit drizzly, but nothing major. There was also this stupid Japanese person that thought it necessary to dress their dog up in Japanese clothes [...]
Didn’t do much again today, went to the bank to get the travellers cheques cashed and packed up our stuff to take to Tokyo. Caught the train in the afternoon and a coupla hours later (and another train change) we were there
Due to the weather (stupid rain) we had a quiet day today, just sitting round the house with a walk to the shops thrown in at lunch time for good measure. I started going through all the photo’s i’ve taken so far and found the photos of the mountain ranges i took with the intention [...]
Went to Matsumoto today to look at a castle. It was pretty cool, had a moat and everything, but i was a bit disappointed that it didn’t have a drawbridge. It took about an hour and a half to get there on the train, then we had to walk for a while, but we found [...]
We were supposed to go and see some monkeys today, but it was raining and we didn’t think it would be much fun trudging through a forest in the rain. In the afternoon we went to Zenkoji Temple, it’s about a 1km walk after we got off the train in Nagano. When we finished here [...]
Spent most of the morning sleeping, was fantastic. After being very sleep deprived for the last couple of days it was great to finally catch up. Went shopping mid-morning, nothing special, just food mainly, and little bits and pieces to keep us going. Caught the train into Nagano after lunch and wandered around there for [...]
After 2 plane flights of about 7hrs each, i’ve finally arrived in Japan! Had a 2 and a half hour stop-over in Kuala Lumpur, then flew into Tokyo Airport at about 7am local time. The flights were pretty good actually, fairly smooth, food was decent enough for airline food, and had great TV shows to [...]
Just 4 more hours til my flight to Japan leaves. It’s really starting to sink in now, and i’m excited! Maybe even Big Kev excited! Bags and everything are packed so now all that’s left to do is go to the airport and wait. I wonder what i should buy duty free?
I’m now officially on holidays. I finished my last day of work today and now all that’s left to do is pack my things and head to the airport. It’s not quite that simple, still have to work out what i want to take, get new batteries for my discman (no iPod here), burn some [...]