As you've probably noticed, I've managed to upload some photos at last! You can see my accommodation for the night in this one... We mooched about Kamakura until about 3pm today when we got the train to Tokyo. Our hotel is in Akihabara (Electric Town) and is of the capsule variety. At 4,000 yen a night it's a bit of a bargain - only slightly more expensive than the hostels and cheaper than our ryokan that may have been authentic but wasn't exactly luxurious. Yo...

It's Saturday morning here in Tokyo and we're bound for Kyoto on the Shinkansen (bullet train) today. But before we set off I thought I'd do a little round up of the events of yesterday which seemed to embrace high and low culture in equal measure! The day started with a trip to Ueno Park which is full of museums and a zoo. We went into the Tokyo National Museum and saw a whole range of sculptures, paintings, laquer work, samurai armour and kimonos. There was a...

Ohayo Gozaimas! It's day three in Tokyo and the calm before another mental day of sightseeing. We packed in a lot yesterday, getting up at 4.30am to go to Tsukiji Fish Market. It was mentally busy with hundreds of men bustling about and people transporting fish on these crazy electric scooters that looked like beer barrels. I've never seen so many different types of fish in my life; every single kind you can imagine, some still alive and twitching, some being ex...

We made it! The excitement kicked off with a star spot in T5 at Heathrow: Leona Lewis browsing the gossip mags in WHSmith. I got totally over-excited, much to the bemusement/disgust of my travelling companions, and was going to pap her but couldn't work out a way to do it without her noticing. After following her about looking a bit demented I gave up and we went to drink tea and wait for the flight. After an 11.5 hour flight we touched down at Tokyo Narita Ai...