We had a good flight from Tokyo to Singapore (about 7.5 hours) as the plane was far from full it was very comfortable. We arrived in Singapore and the heat is the first thing to hit you. Now I can do hot weather but Singapore's humidity is another thing! We were staying with Paul's friends Richard and Vana and their 2 kids Matthew (3 & 3 quarters!) and Ollie (8 months). They have a lovely house in the suburbs of Singapore which was just a short walk to the tr...

So today we done an organised tour which we had booked with our honeymoon fund. It was a trip to Mount Fuji, a traditional Japanese lunch, a boat trip on Lake Ashai, a cable car up a mountain on lake Ashai then the bullet train back to Tokyo. This was a truly awesome day. Firstly due to such clear weather we were able to go up the 5th stage of Mt Fuji. This is about 2030 metres and it was freezing!!! It was quite something though and the views were stunning. We...

Brrr.... Cold

After a good night’s rest we meet Yukio at 9.30am and started our second day of exploring. Today we took the train to Kamakura which is about an hour or so outside of Tokyo. This region has many temples and shrines which date back to about 1000 years ago. Our first stop was in Mase where we visited a famous Temple with a big gold Budda whilst there we tried a hot rice wine. It was like a watery ambrosia creamed rice - not unpleasant but I couldn’t drink a ...

Well we made it to Japan! The flight was 12 hours but to be honest I thought it was quite quick - especially since I slept for over 6 hours! BA were great and we were well looked after. So we arrived in Tokyo Narita at 9am and my Uncle Yukio meet us at the airport and took us to our hotel in the Shinagawa district in Tokyo. Narita is quite a distance from Tokyo so it took more than an hour to get to the hotel. We were feeling pretty good after getting so much...