Today i have awoke in a small town next to Mt.Fuji called Kawaguchiko which was the last train station to the mountain. I stayed the night in a peaceful hostel where only a few backpackers joinned us. The hostel is a little more traditional compaired to the others ive stayed in Tokyo a little more expensive but worth it, the only problem is its lack of showers and the add of a communal bath. Unfortunatly we still can`t see the mountain as it is just too damn fogg...

Yesterday was one hell of an experiance! We visited Harajuku to see the teenage capital its known as, and it was quite a sight to see the extremes that they dress up to, some going from surpassing a motley crew style dress sense to others that are completely tarted up. the district was mainly one big clothes shopping cortex, which was intresting to see what you could get but it was all fairly expensive. While we where there we tried to find the famous park that w...

Hi there, Last night we tried out the Pod lifestyle and i have to say it was pretty good!! spacious, comfy and you have your own tv. from what i can tell the tv programs are very odd and the adverts are even more odd! but all very funny but i found myself sitting there in a confused entertained mess for a couple hours at least. The day before kind of ended up falling apart by some wonderful sleep as james and i booked another night at the smile then suffering wit...

james has uploaded some photo's this address. unfortunatly i can't do it with my camera.http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=7939&id=517606665&ref=nf

As soon as the first night was over and i woke up this place sure seems amazing. ive traveled out of the lodge and visted a temple stopping off at a noodle bar around the corner. the temple sure looked amazing and just outside the entrance there is a pot of smoke created from sticks that people have created a prayer on. people will walk upto this pot and wash themselves with the smoke or place it over an item for luck i guess. there was a statue to the right of t...