Kagoshima is a small town on the south coast of Japan. It was lovely, particularly after grim and gloomy Nagasaki! The rather lovely, but ever so slightly odd, Mr. Nakazono made us feel very welcome. We mainly went to Kagoshima because it's got the most active volcano in Japan (possibly the world, but we wouldn't want to make any unfounded claims to fame here!), and Gemma had heard rumours that she might need an ash umbrella! How exciting! It's last big erruption...

Well . . . what to say about Fukuoka! It was all about the Sumo really! We stayed in a really lovely traditional Ryokan complete with it's own onsen, but mostly we were just excited about the sumo! Particularly when on our way to buy the tickets we came across two wrestlers on their way home. We figured they can't have been very good ones because a) it was only 3pm and they were already finished and b) they were walking home! The wrestling fans were waiting out...

Hey - guess what! We found our guesthouse in Hiroshima first go! Without any outside help (apart from step-by-step directions, a map . . . and a compass)! We're getting good at this! We lost several hours on our first day in the Peace Memorial Museum - we generally avoid museum's, but felt this one warranted a visit. It was very interesting . . . and emotional . . . and we had to go and find gin afterwards. The weather continued to bless us here, so we took the...

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...