Today we went to see Kabuki Theatre which Ive always wanted to see. We took a friend from the hostel, another Canadian named Gabriel. Found the Kabuki-Za Theatre in Ginza relatively easily after navigating through the massive Ginza subway station, shops everywhere. Unfortunately when we got there there was a long queue and the morning performance sold out so we waited an hour and watched the afternoon performance instead. We got cheap seats, about a fiver so ...

The next morning its not funny at all. For unknown reasons Beth wakes me at 9am and it feels like there are skewers through my head. It hurts a lot. She wakes me up a couple of hours later. It still hurts, I go back to sleep. She wakes me up to tell me that she and the two Canadian guys we know are going to the Imperial Palace. So I get up. Have my usual cheesy toast - Japan does a good cheesy toast and its cheap - and coffee and feel better. So we enter ...

so right after my last blog I went for a sleep because I was knackered after hours and hours of travelling. then when I woke up and climbed out of my capsule I misjudged it and scraped all up my back on the one above. it hurt a lot but i managed not to scream as there were other people sleeping. really wanted to though. beth and i went to get some lunch and had japanese curry and rice in this fantastic traditional style restaurant just up the street. as soon as ...

Greetings from Tokyo! Thought Id do a paragraph on my initial impressions. Narita was just an airport, nothing odd happening there and I was one of many caucasians, shall we say, so no one looked at me like a martian at all. The staff at the tourist information and train ticket booths were very helpful and nice to a no-clue person like me. I took the train and then the subway during the get to work commute time but it wasnt all that packed really. Feeling ra...