Greetings from Hiroshima. We arrived by bullet train on Friday (hence the rather exciting picture) these are the all singing all dancing tilting trains which don't make you sick (as they are all on the line from Glasgow to London). So on arrival we were approached by a lovely Japanese guy who took us directly to our hotel. He wasn't a tour guy or anything but he wanted to practice his English. Unfortunately, his feet were under someone else's control ...

24hrs, 3 plane takeoff and landings, 2 inflight meals and 1 tuk tuk later we arrived in Japan very tired, cold as we were dressed for 30 degree heat and about to get very wet. We managed to negotiate our way through the not so very difficult subway and rail stations to find our Hotel out in the suburbs. Unfortunately our 2 singles rooms weren't ready as it was 11am and people were only just leaving but in some stroke of luck there was a twin available right ...