The final video from Japan, this shows the volume of people wandering across the road at the main crossing by Shibuya Station. It actually got far busier an hour or so later.

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Just a quick video compilation of the arcade in Narita I popped into and the Pachinko palour in Shibuya. One more video to come. I’ll likely post it tomorrow once I’ve got Windows 7 working, or figured out how to stop the Movie Maker in my XP from locking up all the time.

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We hopped onto the tube which took us to Meiji-jingūmae station. Outside, we got our bearings and walked towards the nearby city park. This surrounds the Meiji-jingū itself – the shrine to the Emperor Meiji. Right by the gates, an artist had spread out a lot of examples of his work in front of a [...]

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Today was my second and last full day in Tokyo – and Japan. Situations at home necessitated booking an earlier flight home than I’d hoped, but there’s not a lot I could do about that. I’d managed to organise a couch to surf for the evening, and Taka-san said it would be no problem for [...]

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Narita is not a big place, so exploring it in a day was going to be easy. The tricky part is not getting lost in the windy alleyways which turn out to be fully-functioning streets. Only small. And windy. Having a good sense of direction here isn’t an advantage, it’s a necessary survival tool. I [...]

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Clock up number 47, if I have my maths right. I’ve finally made it to Japan! I ended up having to get the bus to Cairns Airport as the weather was so bad. It’s not a long walk (around 1½ hours) but in torrential rain it just wasn’t happening. Thankfully this meant I got there [...]

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Ok, I did it. I just booked a flight from Darwin to Cairns and another from Cairns to Narita International Airport in Tokyo! After wanting to do so for more years than I care to remember, I am finally going to Japan! A actually have tingles and goosebumps at the thought of it! Part of [...]

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