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...

7/10/09 Day 3 - Disneyland Tokyo I was so excited this morning, Mum and I were up and dressed by 7.30am but had some problems getting Dad out of bed! Once we all had breakfast (bowl of rice and other strange delicacies) we headed to the train station and caught the train to Tokyo. It took us 15mins to walk from our first train to the next train because Tokyo station is huge it felt almost as big as the CDB in Melbourne!!! Finally we arrived at Disneyland. It wa...

5/10/09 Day 1: Melbourne Airport - Australia Wow! It's really here, we are finally going on our trip. Mum and Dad organized a taxi to pick us up from home and take us to the airport. Once there they changed some Australian money (AUD) for 5 different currencies to the countries that we will be visiting: Japanese Yen (YEN), Chinese Yuan (CNY), Thailand Baht (BHT), American Dollars (USD) - this is the currency mainly used in Cambodia and Vietnamese Dong (VND). ...