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Woke up again at silly o'clock (about four o'clock) managed to nod back off for an hour. Re-popped another blister which was looking gangrenous and starting to smell a little like almonds. Apparently Dr Sarah Evil say's I will live and I am making a right old fuss. Anyway, another action packed day ahead. We headed for the JR station Shin-Nihombashi, we were on our way to Yokohama. There wasn't a lot there to be fair but we had a look round and found a tiny little restaurant/take away place like a 'vendor' but with out the vending part. We had to get the poor lady from behind her kiosk out to point at what we wanted as there was no menu just a board with pictures on. Neither of us have a bloody clue what we ordered or ate for that matter. Anyways we moved onto a little place called Kamakura. On the approach there was rolling countryside and after about two hours into the journey we arrived, we got off the train, I was walking like Quasimodo (due to the blister), and headed into the village/town. It had a wonderful relaxed atmosphere and made a change to downtown Tokyo. As soon as we arrived there was a temple (we now had a routine to visiting temple's, we walked up the steps checked if you had to pay then poke the camera through a gap take a snap and leave), we then walked further to more temples (we didn't go in any of them due to the entrance fee). Then we found the center of this metropolis. There was a huge temple and surrounding gardens, the highlight however was when three female students (Japanese) came up to us and said 'harrow we are courageous students (Sarah claims they said the were college students but I prefer my version) and we would like to ask you a few question, do you ave time?' I said 'yes' and started to get my phone out to tell them the time. Everyone looked confused. They meant do we have time for there questions. 'Which tea do you prefer - Japanese Green Tea or English Tea?' obviously English tea however we replied 'green tea', 'why?' Sarah said 'it is better for you' good answer, I just said 'it's good'. With that we stuck a sticker on the green tea side of their in depth questionnaire and they gave us a sweet and said their goodbyes. The sweet I popped straight in my gob and it was chalky and flipping foul, however like a gone off everton mint it had toffee in the middle and was alright in the end. We then headed for a giant bronze Buddha where you could walk in his feet (I didn't know why either but I went with it). We walked a mile to the Buddha and … you had to pay to get in so we sneaked a picture and headed back to the station. We looked in a shop next to Barry the Buddha, it was a traditional Japanese gun shop and would you believe it, I hadn't heard a foreign accent all day (other than Sarah's) but in this gun shop (of all places) it was full of yanks, typical. The train was on time and we headed for an area called Shinjuki where I was promised by my associate there was actually a free observation tower, she was right and it did not disappoint. We headed up to the forty fifth floor and had a look round. It was dark now and Tokyo was alive with the pulse of lights and the energy below us. It said that you could see mount Fiji in the day light so we said we would go back tomorrow. We then found another electric city which to be fair wasn't as good as the first we went to. It suddenly became bitterly cold so we headed back to the hotel. We assured ourselves to finally get over the jet lag we would stay up until at least ten o'clock. We did... just but probably by ten past ten we were asleep.
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Sarah Remember how the security guards in the Shinjuki Tower laughed at us with our locks in our bags!! And on our way there we saw the standing-up-asleep-security-guard!! I LOVED Kamakura! We tried the soy sauce rice cakes here - yum, yum, yum!!!