Hello,So we've moved into our new hostel. It's actually really nice... and warm, which is a step-up from the last one. Nothing against these traditional Japanese buildings but they could learn a thing or two about insulation. The new hostel is huge. Our room is a 12 bed dorm, but it's one of those pod rooms, so it's like living and sleeping in a coffin. Went to Mount Fuji today. We thought we were onto a winner with the price but it turned out the price we were ...

Ok so last night we tried horse neat )RAW( fish liver, sea cucumber, octopus tentacle, raw squid, fried shrimps. Lovely jubbly! its freezing here so ill go into more detail another time. Movin hostels 2moz and not sure what the internet will be like so might not be able to write for a few days. love to all!! xxx

Hi again. So we slept for about 15 hours last night and think we`ve just about adjusted to the timezone. Got up this morning about 7 so we got the showers before everyone else and had japanese breakfast which was miso soup, green tea　and riceballs which was lush. I (siobhan) persevered with chopsticks but took so long that it went cold and Lee realised that hidden in the balls were little fishies with eyes and everything and he became suspiciously full. Anyway...

Hi, So we are in tokyo.　The writing is coming out a bit weird on this keyboard because it keeps switching from pictures　or japanese to english which is obviously the computers fault and not mine. But this is just to let everyone know we have arrived safely and are now checked in to our hostel which is awesome (pics to follow). We had a wander around the city today as we couldnt check in until 4. I got hissed at by an old japanese man which was strange. Off t...