We arrived in Tokyo a little later than expected. It was about 10 pm by the time we landed and the last train to our hostel was due to leave at 11. If we missed the train we would have had to have stayed in the airport until the morning which would have been awful. It was quite a close call, but we made it. It took about an hour and a half to get to the hostel and we were both really tired, however we could already feel a big difference between China and Japan. I...

We arrived in Tokyo a little later than expected. It was about 10 pm by the time we landed and the last train to our hostel was due to leave at 11. If we missed the train we would have had to have stayed in the airport until the morning which would have been awful. It was quite a close call, but we made it. It took about an hour and a half to get to the hostel and we were both really tired, however we could already feel a big difference between China and Japan. I...

We arrived in Tokyo a little later than expected. It was about 10 pm by the time we landed and the last train to our hostel was due to leave at 11. If we missed the train we would have had to have stayed in the airport until the morning which would have been awful. It was quite a close call, but we made it. It took about an hour and a half to get to the hostel and we were both really tired, however we could already feel a big difference between China and Japan. I...

We managed to get the high speed train from Zhengzhou to Shanghai, so it only took six and a half hours as opposed to the 13 hours it would have taken on the slow train. The moment we got to Shanghai it felt so civilised - the station was shiny and new, there were restaurants with English menus, and it was all so clean. We stayed in Shanghai for 4 nights and absolutely loved it, especially after our time in Dengfeng.Shanghai is a huge city but it felt really diff...

Chengdu is your typical Chinese city - filled with skyscrapers and malls. It was a lot like Kunming, however we were happy to find that it was considerably easier as most people spoke some English. We spent much of our 5 days in Chengdu wandering around different parts of the huge city. It is incredible just how many malls there are in Chengdu. A mall is quite a big deal in the UK, however in Chengdu there are mega malls on most streets in the centre of town. Som...