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Japanese Whisky and a Fat Pipe

Approaching Tokyo station we starting to examine the railway maps we had, looking for the station to get off at for our hostel. We couldn't find it anywhere. The instructions they had provided in an email and I had saved on my phone were, of course, only in English, which meant that we couldn't...

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The Happy Couple on July 16, 2009 from Tokyo, Japan

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Failed Fujisan. Homeless in Kyoto

We were heading back to Kyoto with nowhere to stay. This was another job for John! I sent him a text and asked him to try and book us accommodation in Kyoto. Just before we arrived in Kyoto John sent a text back to say he had been unable to find anywhere that wasn't completely booked up. We...

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The Happy Couple on July 15, 2009 from Kyoto, Japan

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Day 27 - Day 26 Update & Day 27 - (7/14/2009)

Made it to Misawa! So lets finish off day 26, -7.13.2009- I got on the flight to Narita with no one sitting next to me and about an hour forty later I was in Japan! Ok, so for those of you who might have seen the news (or maybe not) apparently my flight to Japan made the news. haha. I don't...

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Kennyboy12 on July 14, 2009 from Misawa, Japan

from the travel blog: 2009 - Kenny Baldridge - "No Reservations"

Deer and Okonomiyaki

We left our noisy hostel and got the train to Nara. We had actually received one Couchsurfing reply from a girl in Nara, but it was just to say she could no longer host people, however her boyfriend was running a hostel next door, and would we like to book in. At first we had resisted,...

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The Happy Couple on July 14, 2009 from Nara, Japan

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

A Massive Let-down

We arrived in Kyoto and I was expecting to be blown off my feet by the beauty of the place, but it was just another over-developed consumerist hell. Japan is just about shopping. Kyoto seemed more like London where Tokyo had been New York. I had been expecting much more (again my...

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The Happy Couple on July 12, 2009 from Kyoto, Japan

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Onsen and Organised Crime

In the morning we checked Couchsurfing again and found that we still didn't even have any negative responses from the Kyoto Couch-hosts. Lots of people's profiles said that they were fully booked for the next two months and the mood on the Kyoto forum was more agitated that other places,...

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The Happy Couple on July 9, 2009 from Nagasaki, Japan

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Indiscriminate Murder and Self-indulgence

==Indiscriminate Murder== At last we got a lovely long sleep in our expensive room and got up nice and late. We caught a tram to the Atomic Bomb Museum. We had opted for Nagasaki rather than Hiroshima because Nagasaki sounded like it was quite a nice town as well, whereas Hiroshima sounds...

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The Happy Couple on July 7, 2009 from Nagasaki, Japan

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Shinkansen to Nagasaki

We checked out of our horrible hostel run by the nice people and went to the train station ticket office armed with the Japanese note which had been written for us. This time we were successful and got tickets for the Shinkansen. The Shinkansen in the famous Japanese “Bullet Train”, but...

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The Happy Couple on July 6, 2009 from Nagasaki, Japan

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Tokyo: Consumerist Heck

Just before we had gone to bed a very strange older guy came the common area but did not stop listening to his personal stereo the whole time he was in the room with us; his was the personal stereo I'd been able to hear in my bed. He was an American of about 50, who looked like Andy Warhol....

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The Happy Couple on July 5, 2009 from Tokyo, Japan

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Arrival in Japan

From the moment we arrived at Tokyo's Narita Airport it was pretty confusing. We had been warned about the lack of English in Japan but we had hoped for at least a little at an airport. Before this trip I would have thought it absurd to suggest that any country should be using any language other...

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The Happy Couple on July 4, 2009 from Tokyo, Japan

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

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