Okay so yesterday we had a bit of a lie in again due to our lateish night watching the FA cup as we finallt at half time found the channel it was playing on in our hostel, so watched the second half and extra time. When we did get up we got on the metro to Ueno where we went down ameyoko st which is a mad market with people shouting to come to their stall and music blaring and hundreds of people pushing and shoving it was an experience with so much atmosphere tha...

So last night at the Bar, we got chatting to some americans eho reminded us that there's a sumo tournament on in Tokyo at the moment (they're only held 6 times a year) and its just up the road (25min walk) from our hostel. So we got up early (7.30am), thank gos this jetlag has finally gone now! and walked down as the ticket booth opens at 8am and 400 tickets go on sale daily as well as the pre-bought tickets, so we went and queued up and bought a day ticket for 2...

Today we had planned to get up and get going earlyish, but when i woke up i was feeling really rough as i had throughout the night had stomach cramps and so i wanted a bit more sleep as i still felt sick. We finally got up about 12pm again and got sorted to go out i was still feeling a bit sick but thought it might go once i had some food. We just went in the grocers at the end of our rd and found he sold packets of croissants so we got those for brekkie/lunch an...

Today we had planned to get up and get going earlyish, but when i woke up i was feeling really rough as i had throughout the night had stomach cramps and so i wanted a bit more sleep as i still felt sick. We finally got up about 12pm again and got sorted to go out i was still feeling a bit sick but thought it might go once i had some food. We just went in the grocers at the end of our rd and found he sold packets of croissants so we got those for brekkie/lunch an...

So we woke up after a nosiy night in the hostel at midday due to jet lag I had trouble getting to sleep to start with even though i was tired and it didnt help that we could hear our neighbours conversation in full. But never mind, i didnt tell you about our room as we:re staying in the annex of the hostel but even then we:re in another extra bit which has 5 rooms (all doubles i think) which has its own little kitchen area, shower, sinks and toilets, so thats qui...