Another start to the day, another unorthodox toyoko inn breakfast. Today's offering was tiny sausages (only a few centimeters in length), cold pasta salad, croissants, bread rolls and salad. Another very quiet day today, with not much planned. All in all, Osaka isn't a great place to spend much time on a Japanese holiday. I'd recommend seeing Dotombori at night like we did last night. And do so on a Friday or a Saturday night when it is at its most crowded and...

With afternoon naps had by all, except me, we were ready to head out and see Dotombori and the surrounding district as it was meant to be seen. At night. The sun sets very early in the Japanese winter, so with it already dark, we left the hotel at 5:30pm and headed north east. Once we reached the outskirts of the shopping and eating districts, the contrast between daylight and night time popularity of the region became apparent. The sheer number of peop...

To bed at 3am, and waking up before 7am this morning, the total number of hours I've slept since Wednesday morning is still in single figures. Sleep is overrated. After the girls woke up, we all headed downstairs for the traditional complimentary Toyoko Inn breakfast of miso soup and rice balls. Except it wasn't miso soup, nor was there any rice to be seen. Oddly, breakfast consisted of cold potato, bacon and egg salad (like you would find at any Australian sup...

Its now 2:12am Tokyo time, so factoring in the 2 hour time difference, I've now been awake for 25+ hours. Why on earth am I sitting here writing a blog entry?? I'll keep it short. Probably. The remainder of the flight was excellent. The extra money paid for the business class seats was well worth it. Compared to an economy class flight, the extra room, service and entertainment meant that the trip seemed so much quicker. Truthfully I was a little disappointed w...

Currently, I'm sitting at the pointy end of a Jetstar flight, in the front row of business class, having just finished my juice, lunch, pepsi, cake, coffee, baileys and chocolates. I'm full. And we're less than 90 minutes into the flight. For the first time on a flight I'm happy and comfortable. But more on that later. After finishing last night's blog entry at the F1 motel at about 10:30pm, I set the alarms for 3:45am, and went to bed. We had a taxi booked for...