Left Nagasaki at a more reasonable 9am this morning, and arrived in Osaka around 2.30. The hostel was hard to find due to its lack of any saignage but eventually with the help of the homeless i found it. Its a capsule hotel and my pod is bright yellow! Got the train into Osaka central after some confusion, i don`t like the trains in Osaka so much. Had a little wander, and then went up into the `floating garden observatory`, 39 fllors and 173 metres in the air...

Got the train at early o'clock again this morning to Nagasaki, got an even nicer train, and arrived at the hostel about 11am. Hired a bike and set off on another adventure! Cycled along the river which my hostel looks over, and it has bridges every few metres, includin spectacel bridge. Went up to the site of the martyrdo, of the 26 Christian saints of Japan and the monument there, then up even furthur to the National Peace Memorial centre for the atomic bomb ...

After a reasonably quiet night, i hired a bike yesterday, and was headed towards the Imperial Palace when i met a couple of American guys who were headed the same way. We had to book onto a tour of the palace, so we went to find the castle. The castle was pretty cool, with great gardens. in the rooms where the shogun had meetings, they marked all the trapdoors and hidden panels were the samurai hid! We went to get dinner, ordered it out a vending machine, the...

Yesterday, i got the train to Shimbuya, a really nice district with lots of fun shops, including a great disney store, hello kitty stores, a barbie shop and lots of music and manga stores. Walked around getting lost and trying to avoid the temptations, then walked to Yoyogi park. Had a wander round and started talking to a Japanese guy who had lived in london for a year and wanted to practice his English. We went to the Meiji shrine which was really amazing,an...

Well, first day in Tokyo and my legs are exhausted! Woke up and got my morning coffee out a hot can from a vending machine! Walked over the bridge and using a Japanese map managed to navigate my way to the sinsoji temple, the biggest temple in Tokyo. It was amazing! there were the initial gates, then there was a passage lined with stalls then the temple at the end. yuo can get your fortune there, by picking a stick and then taking a fortune out the box that it...