Hey everybody.

Its already been a week since I left and I am already exhausted.

Highlights so far

• Imperial Palace East Gardens
• Ghibli Museum
• Old Capital Town of Kamakura
• Edo Tokyo Museum

But everything has been new and interesting

Japan has a lot of interesting features that are unlike any other place I have ever been. Tokyo is full of Cyclists everywhere. No one wears helmets and they all ride around on the footpath. one place I went to there would of been enough racks for 1000 bikes on the side of the road. But still no one locks any of them up at all so people just take what ever one they like.

And you most definately haven't seen a complicated train system until you get to Tokyo Station where you can walk 800m between two different train lines at the same station. And some trains don't stop at the station you need so you end up going past the station three times before it actually stops there.

And you have not seen pain and suffering for fasion until you have seen women in 5 inch platform shoes roaming hills and temples in heels. Really do you need to wear them everywhere. It hurts for me to walk in normal shoes on a gravel path let alone in stilettos.

Smoking is obviously somewhat frowned upon in Japan cause they force them to smoke in tiny rooms inside buildings cramed full of like 100 people all huddled around these funny looking bins for the ashes. Even outside very rarely do you see anyone smoking away from these bins placed next to picnic tables.

Being the safe place that Tokyo is mainly because you have a police box on every corner{they might as well be an information centre as they give out more directions then anything} and guards in every room of a museum. This means that you can have thousands of vending machines just sitting on the side of the road because nobody vandalises or breaks the law.

On my travels I also visited a museum/art gallery that housed an exhibition called Stitch. Some these artworks were just pieces of see through fabric wrapped around a lamp with a bit of stitching to hold it in place. Its really bizarre. Or in other places you will have a room with a wooden box and then another wooden box built into the wall. But the one that I loved the most was this rectangular layout of rocks about 10m long acroos a floor and I was really tempted to fall on it to see if the guard would put it back in place or whether they would need to get the artist in to fix it.

Somehow we can still find more craziness. Visit Tokyu hands where you can buy any strange japanese invention there is while visiting the cat petting zoo.

But you have got to love its quirkyness.