The weather actually seems to be getting hotter in line with my grand tradition of visiting cities during national holidays when even the locals are driven to the hills by the oppressive heat, guess what? Its a national holiday and its a heat wave! Anyway decided to brave the subway aiming to keep up my other travel tradition; find the tallest building I can to get to the top of. With this in mind I set off for the Toyko Tower using the subway. Remember how I sa...

Well finally arrived in Japan after 24hours of travelling including a delightful 5 hours in Heathrow. Got to Japan at 9am local time then spent an hour and a half to get to the Hotel at which point was barely conscious however the Hotel is amazing!! I am on the 14th Floor of the East tower which gives you an idea of the size of the place. There are loads of Restaurants and shops and an Aquarium and Roller Coaster as part of the Hotel complex fair to say we are no...