Hello again So we are now in Yudanaka, which is famous for 4 things, skiing, hot springs, the 1998 Winter olympic games and the snow monkeys. The reason we visited was to see the snow monkeys! We arrived late on the train then got completely lost walking in the dark to our ryokan, until a Japanese guy asked us if we needed help (he also sat near us on the train!) anyway turned out we where only 2 doors away. On arrival we had to remove our shoes (Which is re...

Nikko and Chuson-Ji (A quick note!) These are very small towns full of very old temples and shrines. We only had 1 nights stay in each town. We arrived in Nikko in the afternoon from Tokyo (we were at the fish market that very morning) We got the bullet train at around noon and got to Nikko and our hotel about 3 hours later. After checking in we walked down the road to see what we can see. We found a temple/shrine complex with some very nice statues and buddha'...

Hi All We finally have some time to update the blog again (on the train to Kyoto). It is unbelieveble how little time we actually have to spend on the blog and diarys. I think we are now about 20 days behind on writing our diarys so we are going to take the time in Shanghai to upadate them as we have about 10 days booked there. So this is our update on Tokyo. We were booked into hostel Asakusa Smile for 7 days in one of the older neighbourhoods of Tokyo (if yo...

Hello lovely people, Should start with a thank you to everyone who has enquired about my sister. She is ok now after being at home for a couple of days she was rushed back into hospital in extreme pain. But she's ok because she has my mum staying with her! Get well soon big sis and hope you had a good birthday. Also, i wasn't going to add this to the blog because i didn't want to upset my mum, but I told her now so i can share it with you! When I was bit by t...

Hi everyone, First i would like to welcome my mum to the blog, congratulations on finding it! We are currently in Tokyo but we thought we should really tell you more about Osaka. So as i mentioned last week we missed the boat from Shanghai to Osaka by 10mins, first we had to get the overnight train from Beijing to Shanghai then get a bus or taxi to the harbour, but the flipping train conductor woman told us to get off at the wrong stop 2 hours before we wh...