Took our time to get ready in the morning, as Himeji castle was the only thing on the agenda for today. According to everything I've read, tourist wise the city of Himeji is quite an unremarkable city, with the exception of Himeji castle. From what I've seen so far I would have to agree. The town itself seems fairly small, well laid out and relatively uncrowded. Veronica and Charlotte went downstairs for the typical Toyoko Inn breakfast of rice balls, miso soup a...

Awoken at 7am by a couple of young girls who seemed to have little interest in the fact that we were awake packing bags until after 2am. Oh well, 5 hours sleep is more than enough. I walked down to the mall to get us some breakfast, while Veronica finalised things in the room. One other thing I have noticed in Sasebo is they have some world class bakeries. All of the different types of bread and pastries you could imagine, and many that I have never seen before (...