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Tsukiji Fish Market & Tokyo Disneyland in One Day!

faithmonsoon — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:40:07 +0000

Thinking that we had 2 days left to fit in everything we wanted to do in Tokyo, one day at Disneyland and a visit to the fish market followed by an early night in preparation for our early flight on Wednesday, we noticed that the fish market was closed on the Monday so headed off [...]

A quick update

faithmonsoon — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:28:06 +0000

We are now in Siem Reap in Cambodia. After Japan we stopped over in Hong Kong for 4 days and had great fun hanging out with Aideen even although she tried to kill us with a Saturday morning hike! From there we flew to Bangkok and spent 9 days waiting for our visas for Vietnam. [...]

Hong Kong

faithmonsoon — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:33:21 +0000

We only had a short 4 days in Hong Kong but managed to pack a fair bit in. We arrived around lunchtime on the Wednesday and found our way successfully onto the airport bus and down towards Tsim Sha Tsui to find our hostel in Chungking Mansions. After the amazing hostels in Japan which were always [...]

Kyoto, Osaka & Hiroshima

faithmonsoon — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:55:08 +0000

We’ve managed to cover a fair bit of Japan since my last post… We left Kawaguchi-ko on Monday (6th) for Kyoto and being prepared as we are had not really worked out how to get there. Luckily, the hostel owner was very helpful and he pointed us in the direction of the bus stop to catch [...]

Photos at last!!!

faithmonsoon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:04:18 +0000

We have moved down to Kyoto but I still couldn’t get my photos off my camera as it kept trying to install something on the hostel PC - my and my fancy camera eh! On a walk around Kyoto we picked up a card reader and now I have my photos - wahey! So here is [...]

Fuji Hunting

faithmonsoon — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:30:43 +0000

Time for another update I think…. We are now down in Kawaguchi-ko which is in the foothills of Mt. Fuji. Unfortunately, when we arrrived the weather was dull and overcast so the mountain was hidden from sight! We are going to rise early tomorrow and go on a mountain hunt! We are staying in a traditional Japanese [...]

More Tokyo

faithmonsoon — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:30:51 +0000

Today we visited the oldest temple in Japan - the Senso-ji - just a short walk from our hostel in Asakusa. It was really hot so after our wander around Asakusa we went back to the hostel for a rest and to do some planning/hostel booking. This evening we went up the Tokyo Tower. The tower is 333m [...]

Exploring Shibuya

faithmonsoon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:27:35 +0000

Today we took the subway down to Shibuya then wandered around there for a while. We popped into the Disney Store to check the prices of tickets for the themepark there - yet to decide when to visit - and then walked up to Harajuku. We visited the Meiji Jingu shrine in Yoyogi park. It’s a [...]

Lost Luggage

faithmonsoon — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:40:54 +0000

So we have arrived safely in Tokyo. Our bags, on the other hand, haven’t! We arrived in Tokyo to a handwritten sign informing us that most of the bags from our flight had not been put on the plane due to a baggage handling problem at Heathrow Terminal 5. We then had to queue [...]

Day Before Departure

faithmonsoon — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:47:08 +0000

We are hanging out in the apple store playing with the iPod touch. They are so cool and mine broke last night, maybe I will have to get one… Iain has still to pack…