Today I woke up at seven thirty and thought I would quickly get dressed and meet Steven for breakfast... We had a long day ahead and wanted to get an early start. However due to the fact I was sharing a room with a collection of Japanese dolls... This was never going to happen. There was already four of them crammed into the small sink space putting on their fake lashes and make up, they were very friendly and sweet and it made me recall living back at home wi...

Today we woke separately and met in the lounge at about 8.30am... We had both slept well surprisingly and were well rested. We sat for a while catching up with mail, writing the blog and researching what we wanted to do while in Kyoto. We planned our days excursions over a cup of tea or two and a sweet bun offered by the hostel before I finished writing the blog on Hiroshima which was emotionally draining. We then thought we would get some fresh air, the hoste...

Today I woke on my bottom bunk bed to the sound of Stevens iPad alarm making a racket... This seemed to go on for a while and I wondered why he hadn't turned it off considering Ben was still sleeping, he is normally quite considerate. Turned out later that he had woken up with two numb arms and was physically unable to turn it off haha... He hadn't had this problem since we shared a tiny single bed and I used to stretch out in my sleep making him curl up, normal...

After a somewhat unsettled night sleep on the bus we arrived to a sunny morning in Hiroshima at roughly 08:30am. The overnight bus ride was fine except one to many toilet breaks, perhaps there were a few weak bladders on the bus... And it wasn't Laura's for once! Apart from that we no real complaints about the overnight bus and was a very good and cheap method of transport. We heaved on our bags and headed in the general direction of our hostel, or so we thought....

We woke up stupidly early as we wanted to experience the Tsukiji Market, which is the largest fish market in the world handling over two thousand tonnes of marine products a day. We left at seven thirty ish after Steven had a chat with our family back in Norfolk... Getting on the subway quickly despite being rush hour and heading the short distance to the market. We then walked to the market, its strange but looking at the streets you wouldn't think Tokyo had j...