12/10/09 Day 7 - Osaka Today we headed to Osaka, and stayed in the nicest hotel yet. The room was a little strange as there was a window from the bathroom into the main room, it had venetian blinds. I thought it was funny. After checking in we walked the streets of Osaka and found a Comedy & Performing Arts Museum. We lucky to meet a nice lady who spoke some English (she went to Australia when she was in yr11 on exchange and stayed in Morwell - Gippsland)...

11/10/09 Day 6 - Kyoto by bicycle Dad decided that the best way to view Kyoto and visit all the places Mum wanted to see was by bike - much to Mum's delight. We found a place that rented bikes for ¥300 ($5) for the day. We rode 4km to Kinkakuji Temple (The Golden Pavilion) imagine a three storey building with the top 2 floors covered in gold leaf. It glistened in the sun. I asked Mum when we could move in, as I told her it matched my scales. Dad let us have a...

10/10/09Day 6 - The Imperial Gardens Tokyo and Bullet Train to Kyoto After our big day yesterday Mum and Dad had me up early again, for what they said would be another big day - boy were the right. We left the hotel at 8am and headed to the Imperial Gardens (as they were closed yesterday when we wanted to look at them). The gardens were beautiful, full of character with an enchanted feel to them. Mum really wanted to look inside the Imperial Palace but unfortuna...

9/10/09Day 5 - The Shogun is Sleeping and The Search for Tokyo Tower Today we got up early and set out to find a new hotel. Luckily we only had to walk for about 15 minutes and were able to find a hotel right next to Okachimachi station.We went to visit the Imperial Garden but were very disappointed to find that it was closed - Daddy said that was because the Shogun was sleeping. We decided to walk to Tokyo Tower which was a long way away but Mummy saw it strai...

8/10/09 Day 4 - Electric City and Anime Today a typhoon was predicted for Tokyo so Mum said that it would be very wet and windy. We stayed inside in the morning but in the afternoon it was beautiful and sunny outside. We didn't really have anything planned for the day so we took a walk to the 'Electric City' which was about 10 mins from our hotel. There was electronics and gadgets of all shapes and sizes and games arcades 6 stories high. Daddy was very excit...