In the morning Alex introduced me to funny French guy called GiGi. He thought my camera story was hilarious and then likened me to Bridget Jones saying I look and act like her.. not happy with that comment! He got quite excited when I told him my surname actually was jones.. I then headed off to Higashoyama. Visited kiyomizudera temple - didn't want to pay to get in as it was quite expensive so instead wandered around the grounds looking at the areas I could for...

Arrived at kyoto to discover id left my camera in Horoshima!! Only realised in the morning and luckily an extremely helpful receptionist helped me sort it out. Ended up booking train back to H, thank GOD for the rail pass! Def got money's worth. Was worried I wouldn't get seat cos v last minute but there are non-reseved carriages which aren't normally full, and i joked that I could just sit in the train toilet instead and the receptionist laughed and said at leas...

So i left Tokyo fairly early in the morning as I was getting the Shinkansen 'bullet train' down to Hiroshima. This is in the south of Japan and my plan was to see Hiroshima and then make my way back up to Tokyo stopping at various places on the way. I'd bought a Japanese Rail pass before i entered the country which is valid for 7 days I plan to make the most of it! Arrived in Hiroshima early afternoon and headed to 'K's hostel". This one isn't as nice as Toco as...

Brilliant start to the day - fell down the stairs in the hostel smashing two mugs on my way and winded myself! I forgot that winding even existed, think I was about 6 the last time that happened.. Today I caught the train to the extremely busy Shibuya and then walked about 30 mins to Harijuku. I headed straight to Yoyogi park which is across from the station. It was FULL of people doing all sorts of weird activities, from practising bartender flare (throwing coc...

NOTE - i have managed to upload some pics online! -> www.flickr.com/photos/ It's a bit confusing to use (at least I found it difficult), but I've arranged *most* of the pics into 'collections' (cities) and within these collections are 'sets' (different places within that city). On the main screen if you follow that link above ^^^ you'll see the collections (cities) on the right hand side - just click each of those to see the separate picture folders :) I'l...