After a day of travelling on Thursday we arrive in Hiroshima and look for a bus to catch to the Hiroshima Youth Hostel. Easily found we hop on and head for our humble home for the next two days. We arrive at the stop and find a sign that says the hostel is roughly an 8 minute walk away. 'Great' we think! So we head off...We round the corner and alas! We come across a beast of a hill roughly rivaling the steep slopes of Mount Everest. Our hearts drop ...

Hi everyone!!!! Sorry for keeping you waiting, this is the first time we've been able to write a blog, various computer problems etc etc! Japan is amazing, loving every minute of it!! We thought New York was impressive but the whole atmosphere here takes it way beyond anything America has to offer!! Getting here was a nightmare! First of all our plane to Tokyo gets cancelled so were re-routed via Shanghai in China with a promise of a flight to Tokyo as soon as ...