Thank you Tokyo Motor Show. Been there. Done that. Never again. Started out the day with the typical Toyoko Inn breakfast, although I must admit it wasn't quite as good as the Toyoko breakfast offerings in the Toyoko Inns in Osaka. So much so that Charlotte and Angela didn't eat anything, and we went next door to the Lawsons mart to grab breakfast for them (and me) before heading back to the room to get ready for today. We headed out at around 9:30am, headed ...

I learn't a valuable life lesson first thing this morning. Never wake your wife with the phrase "Hey Sweet! Wake up! We're having an earthquake!". I woke up this morning, shortly before 6am (after getting to bed at 1am), to the sound of the blinds and coat hangers on the clothes rack banging. Quickly I jumped out of bed wondering why someone was in our hotel room stealing all of our coathangers, and thats when I noticed the floor of the hotel shaking under my...

Is it light drizzling rain outside? Is the temperature 3 degrees celcius, or -1 with wind chill factored in? What would a sensible person do? Go to Disneyland, obviously! We woke up today with no firm plans of what to do, except to relax on my birthday. My original plan was to wake at 4:30am and walk down to the Tsukiji fish market to watch the tuna auction. When looking for details last night however, I read that from December 1st 2011 until some time next ye...

Now I know what real cold feels like. For the entire Australian winter I didn't once wear a jacket, jumper or any form of long sleeves except for my work shirts, so I like to think that I have a decent tolerance for cold. Today was cold. Very, very cold. In fact, I can't ever remember feeling as cold as I did today. Up to now, in the last days of Autumn the weather has been fair. Some cold periods, but mostly ok. Today, we woke up in Shin-Yokohama to miserab...

We're exhausted. It was a busy one today. Not content with travelling halfway across Japan, we decided to also continue the day with an extensive wander around the largest captive audience tourist attraction in Tokyo, the man-made island of Odaiba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odaiba).< br> The day started out with packing the last of our bags, folding up our futon mattresses, and getting the hell out of the Budget Inn in Kyoto. Don't get me wrong, it isn't the ...