Today we went to Hakone. We were planning on finding a good view of Mt. Fuji, but unfortunately it was too cloudy to see any of it. Although it was still a nice sunny day. A very nice Japanese man showed us the way towards the castle, where we saw a famous Japanese elephant! After a spot of lunch we started what we thought was going to be a nice stroll in the park, however turned into a long and painful, yet surprisingly fun, hike towards the onsen! After a cou...

Today we missed our alarm and got woken up by the cleaning lady!!! We were meant to check out by 10am but didn't get out until just after 11am! Luckily we didn't get charged! We made our way over to Tokyo using the bullet train! And settled into our new hostel where we are sleeping in wooden cabins/capsules. You get quite a bit of room in... not as claustrophobic as i thought they would be! Spent alot of time on the free internet and found a 100 yen supermarket s...

Today weve had a very relaxing day. We went to the harbour area by train and then a cute little ferry! At first we didnt have a clue where we were heading to, but then we saw a huge ferris wheel, so we decided to follow this! We came across a huge shopping arena (dont worry parentals we didnt go too mad!!!) We were thinking of havng a ride on the ferris wheel until we stumbled across a man dressed as a NINJA!!!!!!! He convinced us to enter the Ninja house, whic...

Today we went to Nara on the train... took about an hour from Osaka. Before we left the hotel though the lady behind the desk seemed pretty keen to take us to a tourist info centre two doors down which was set up by some students from a local uni for a month. Since she was so nice and very keen for us to go we decided we better had go. So I went there first to get some info on Nara while Selina and Libby went to get lunch from the supermarket. As soon as I walked...

Hello Again! After a long lie in this morning we got up to look around Osaka! We went to the main station area to get some money out and walked past a bakery that we couldn`t resist so bought ourselves lunch... a pizza slice and cake (not very Japanese I know!). We then caught the train to the Osaka-Jo castle park area and sat in the sun eating our lunch! We then walked up to the castle... along the way an old Japanese man decided to accompany us and practice hi...