We all slept in a little too long today. So much so that we were awoken by Veronica saying "Everyone get up. It's 10-to-8 and they stop serving breakfast at 8 o-clock!". Super. With bleary eyes and messy hair we made our way down to the dining room to see what breakfast weirdness awaited us. It turned out to be a lot better than I was expecting. Breakfast was a mix of both familiar and unfamiliar foods, most of which wasn't bad. Stuff like ham, pasta salad an...

Started the day by preparing to bid Yokohama farewell. Yokohama remains my second favourite city in Japan (behind Kyoto), not because of the attractions in the city, but because of its convenient location and laid-back and comparatively uncrowded populace. Stupid ramen museum aside, Yokohama is a good place to base yourself in Japan, especially if you dislike Tokyo as much as we do. Didn't even bother with the Toyoko Inn breakfast this morning, after the unins...

Thank you Tokyo Motor Show. Been there. Done that. Never again. Started out the day with the typical Toyoko Inn breakfast, although I must admit it wasn't quite as good as the Toyoko breakfast offerings in the Toyoko Inns in Osaka. So much so that Charlotte and Angela didn't eat anything, and we went next door to the Lawsons mart to grab breakfast for them (and me) before heading back to the room to get ready for today. We headed out at around 9:30am, headed ...

I learn't a valuable life lesson first thing this morning. Never wake your wife with the phrase "Hey Sweet! Wake up! We're having an earthquake!". I woke up this morning, shortly before 6am (after getting to bed at 1am), to the sound of the blinds and coat hangers on the clothes rack banging. Quickly I jumped out of bed wondering why someone was in our hotel room stealing all of our coathangers, and thats when I noticed the floor of the hotel shaking under my...

Is it light drizzling rain outside? Is the temperature 3 degrees celcius, or -1 with wind chill factored in? What would a sensible person do? Go to Disneyland, obviously! We woke up today with no firm plans of what to do, except to relax on my birthday. My original plan was to wake at 4:30am and walk down to the Tsukiji fish market to watch the tuna auction. When looking for details last night however, I read that from December 1st 2011 until some time next ye...