We arrived in Kyoto on the rather efficient bullet train and yet again managed to get a little confused trying to find our guest house - these Japanese addresses continue to baffle us! Although we loved it we don't have a great deal to say about Kyoto really . . . we went Geisha spotting in Gion, we walked a lot and went to A LOT of temples! All of them very lovely and different, but they've kind of blended into one now! We spotted our first Koi Carp and took a ...

We got the coach from Tokyo to Kawaguchi-ko, which is on a lake at the foot of Mount Fuji. It was great to be in the countryside as we've spent the majority of our time in cities lately. Although we were only there a couple of days we did loads and the weather was very kind to us . . . again! Fuji-san was hiding from us on the day we arrived, but he soon popped out to say hello! One of our first discoveries on wandering down to the lake was that Kawaguchi-ko ha...

After arriving at Narita airport we hopped onto one of the very efficient trains into central Tokyo and arrived at one of the most confusing and incomprehensible train stations we've ever been too! It was very busy! Apparently 3 million people pass through here every day and it has about the same amount of exits and metro lines passing through it! After several wrong turns and a few pointers from some rather lovely Japanese people when we looked too helpless we h...