A little hungover. Set out north to Yanaha - cool little street where we actually did some souvenir shopping. Mostly pre war buildings that still survive. Little coffee shop had a marble run on the walls. We had McD... Ended up in Ueno at the site of Tokyo National Museum and saw lots of history. …
day 11: tokyo
Drunk.com Long morning of grumpy K and Katie not knowing where to go. Miscommunication = Shinjuku which is shit but the mornings conversation had been zombie by K so all agreed plans were null and void in reality. So, a morning wandering shitty Shinjuku streets with a petulant child looking for food was not fun. …
day 08: kyoto
Lazy morning wake up from 7am, packed, got locked in with stiff lock, cursing thinking they'd locked us in before K remembered he'd done it. Wandered up around block of last night's escapades to find a coffee shop for breakfast and had croquet monsieur with a mountain of cabbage and a scoop of weird cold …
day 06: koya-san to kyoto
KOYA-SAN > KYOTO Nice early start at 6am after not so comfy sleep on futons. 630 for morning ritual watchign two monks chant whilst a numpty used their camera flash. 1/2hr later moved onto fire ritual of drums and monk building pyre before we walked round, wafted smoke from ashes over ourselves (ppurification) and bowed …
day 05: osaka to koya-san picking up fi
OSAKA > KOYA-SAN Woke up to Helen's message of waiting for a train at Kansai to come meet us! When she made it around 9am we walked for Yodabayashi station, stopping for a coffee and croissant on the way. Quick charades stop in the pharmacy got us ibruprofen ready to head to Osaka castle with …
day 04: benesse house to osaka
NAOSHIMA > OSAKA Slept better, aside form K farting. Breakfast was a wide array of octopus (had to), seaweed, ham (plastic), marinated mushrooms, boiled gristle sausage, cold wet scrambled egg and hard beans. Surprisingly tasty. Then croissant, fruit salad, orange juice and coffee. There was plenty more on offer including noodle soups, coleslaw, salad, omelette... …
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