So, after brekky, it was decided that Tom would go to a museum, and I would stay in our hotel, resting my knee. Tom went to the National Museum of Nature and Science. It was the easiest one for him to get to alone. He found the museum labels of exhibits to be mostly in Japanese, and the narratives on audios to be totally in Japanese, but he enjoyed the exhibits themselves. Tom was astounded on the way to be confronted by a Japanese Buddhist monk who gave him a re...

After our brekky today we readied ourselves and set off for Tokyo Disney Sea. This involved going into the station and finding the Keiyo Line. This involved 3 sets of moving walkways, and 3 sets of escalators taking us down down down to the centre of the earth, where this train line runs in Tokyo. We took the rapid train out to Maihama station - it was a JR train, but there were no English announcements, and there were no electronic signs in our carriage (as ther...

We took it easy this morning, running on no-one's timetable but our own. After brekky we caught the JR Yamanote line to Shimbashi where we alighted, walked across the road to a different, private railway - the Yurikamome line, where we caught a driverless train to the Telecom Centre out on one of the man-made islands. From there we walked into Tokyo's Academic Park to the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. I then installed myself in the cafe whil...

After a breakfast of sandwiches (with broccoli on them? But they were nice!) and coffee, we went out of the station and around the corner where we were collected by a bus and taken to a bus depot where we were given our tickets and told which coach to board and the off we went. Our first stop was the Meiji Shrine, a large shrine dedicated to the empower Meiji, renown for the restoration of the country. The original shrine was bombed during World War II and a new ...

This morning we took it easy, sleeping in and having a leisurely breakfast before checking out at 11 am. We made our way to the station across the road and deposited ourselves in the Shinkansen waiting room, with all the Japanese passengers. The weather has turned wet and cool, thank heavens. I had not brought summer clothes with me. The locals are all dressed up in thick coats and scarves, but I get hot and covered in sweat! So we caught our Shinkansen to Tokyo ...