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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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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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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