The home of one of the worlds biggest Ferris Wheels (Ali shat himself when we went up it), it is also home to an impressive aquarium (which contains the world's largest tank) which contains a whale shark. (At the risk of sounding like a snob, I would just like to point out that their whale shark wasn't as big as the one I swam with in Australia)!! The aquarium also has a chapel - we only know that because someone had just got married while we were there!!!!! O...

We had our first BIG night out since arriving in Japan (and we had only popped out for some food and "a couple of drinks")! Spent the whole of the next day lying in bed watching the GP on TV - didn't feel too guilty as it was pissing down with rain all day! Overall, Tokyo left me feeling a little unimpressed to be honest. I didn't feel that there were many things to actually visit - it was more a case of just going to different areas and having a bit...

A day trip from Osaka - it looked very uninspiring when we first arrived, but after walking east from the train station for a few minutes things greatly improved. There is basically a huge wooded park that contains dozens of shrines and temples (and 100's of deer)! Ignoring the fact that it was a Sunday (and therefore every Japanese family within a 50 mile radius was there), we had quite a peaceful day wondering around looking at the temples and laughing whenev...