So we made it out of the snow and down into the rain!! We took 1 very capable bus through the snow and then a second one to Mishima where we activated our railpasses. And railpasses mean bullet trains!!!! We took the bullet train to Kyoto....great way to travel. Kyoto has a lot of shrines and temples so we visited a few before heading out further afield to see something different. Our favourite temple was the golden pavillion (Rokuon-ji Temple), which looked am...

Day 5 - Ben We leapt out of bed today hoping to see Mt Fuji, as it was dark when we arrived last night. But again the weather was against us and we had to make other plans. We decided to have a walk around Kawaguchiko lake instead and visited lots of souvenir shops.With no chance of the mountain emerging from the clouds we started back to the hostel, then decided there wasn't a lot else to do so we scanned our map for something else to see and set off in another...

Konnichiwa!! (Hello!!) We made it to Japan in one piece and have nearly got through our first week. We've just been told the first week is the hardest so were veteran travellers now!J Day1 - Ben After saying our goodbyes we flew into the night and straight on til morning with about 3 and a half hours between sunset and sunrise, weird. We arrived in Tokyo at around 9am, midnight 'our time' and it was snowing!. We jumped on a train in the general direction of To...