Day 165 - 166 (16th August - 17th August) Our final destination in Japan was a short trip to Hiroshima to visit the peace dome and the peace park. The peace park area is on the west side of the city, the first building we came across was the peace dome. This is the only building that remains from the bomb blast, it is only 150 meters from the hypercentre of the blast but somehow survived, albeit it is a hollowed out shell of a building but retains the metal ...

Day 161 - 163 (12th August - 14th August) After Osaka we took a train all the way south to the port city of Nagasaki. This should be a five hour journey but we managed to find a train which stopped at what seemed like every town and village in between and took nearly 7 hours….. a little frustrating. Our first impression of Nagasaki was great as we took the tram from the train station to our hostel.. The city had a very different feel from the rest of Japan...

Day 158 - 160 ( 9th August - 11th August) Our train to Osaka left in the afternoon but we got to the station early so we could have a walk around as the station itself is a really interesting building. It was during this walk that a major flip flop related incident occurred. Whilst walking through the busy main hall of the station someone walking close behind me stood and the back of my flip flop. As my foot went forward in the classic walking motion, there w...

Kyoto Day 155 - 158 (7th August - 9th August) After four days in and around the fast pace of Tokyo we took the train to Kyoto traveling back in time and experience a different side of Japan…….or if your name is Tina this meant it was time to hunt for Geishas! After the 3 hour train ride we jumped on the subway to get to our hotel. Once we arrived at our hotel we were pretty confused as we were looking at a swanky plush hotel rather than our usual budge...

Tokyo Day 150 - 154 (1st August - 5th August) We set of to Tokyo on our super cheap yet convoluted journey via Beijing, this made a what could have been a direct 3 hour flight into an epic all day journey which featured some particularly scary customs officials in Beijing. We eventually arrived late in the evening and checked into our hotel in a quiet business district of Tokyo. Once in the room my tiredness turned to excitement when I went into the bathr...