Hello from Japan, home of the grape flavoured Kitkat and the streetside beer vending machine (if you can reach the coin slot you can have a beer). Its also where Hollywood stars make their pocket money. Tommy Lee Jones is the face of Suntory "Boss" iced coffee and Jenifer Love Hewitt comes clean about her skin problems and how a certain cosmetic brand came to her rescue on TV.
We've visited shrines where there are lots of novel ways to make the experience more fun; lucky dip chose your deity, walk between the stones of true love, crawl through the hole of longlife (bit of a squeeze) and drink the water of good luck among others.
We've also spent a lot of time soaking- if you ever feel remotely stressed Japan is the place to come- the whole place is bubbling with hot springs and lovely little bath houses for soaking- its a little wasted on us as the most stressful thing we do on a day to day basis is choose some where to eat (ohh the choice!).
Anyhow we've manage to secure Sumo tickets for this afternoon then we have 10 days in Tokyo and the surrounds before we have to get on a plane- may have to send a few tonnes of stuff home first to avoid the excess baggage. hope everyone is good at home.
Sunday 14 September 2008
5months 6 days and half an hour
This is us fresh off the train with the driver, a little thinner, a little balder (me) and a lot more weighed down with baggage!
Mid Autumn festival
Its the mid Autumn festival right now (dont think they have and early or late Autumn festival). We arrived in Tokyo laden down with backpacks at about 7pm. We found this stage down a tiny side street while trying to find somewhere to stay. We tried to be unobtusive but someone came over gave us a glass of Whiskey and green tea and we ended up dancing round with everybody.
Japanese Loo's
This one was in our youth hostel-could not help but take a photo. It has a seat warmer, bum washer (with power control), a button to pay tinkling noises while you're using it and a button to raise or lower the seat. We have also found some with powerfull extractor fans. oddly you still have to reach round to the cistern to flush!
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