Lawski

After a relatively short journey from Kyoto, i arrive in Nara fairly early on the Thursday morning. I am excited to be hre. Nara is Japan's oldest & most traditional city. It is home to many temples/shrines/parks & deer. I take my stuff to the guesthouse, grab a map n immediately set off to the park. The park has over 7 temples, various woodland areas, numerous shrines, museums and wildlife. The whole area is not extremely big & you can walk around in one day, 2 days if you want to check everything out. I walk straight over to the Todaiji Temple,Tōdai-ji is a Buddhist temple complex. Its Great Buddha Hall, the largest wooden building in the world,houses the world's largest statue of the Buddha Vairocana, known in Japanese simply as Daibutsu (大仏). The temple also ... read more

I make my way to Asakusa after the club. It is situated in the North-East part of Tokyo. It is a fair old mission from the area that i am in - which means going, yet again, through fuck-eyed Shinjuku. I am really starting to dislike Shinjuku. It has the worlds biggest train station and it so crammed full of rude people that you just want to SCREAM. Anyway, I arrive in Asakusa around 11am. I take my heavy baggage to the hotel and go to check out the area. I walk down the street that the hotel is situated and see a group of people all waiting outside a little sushi place and decide to wait with them. I am yet to try sushi in Japan and reckon that if there is a queue half ... read more

Today i am off to Lake Saiko to do some exploring & caving. Basically Mount Fuji is surrounded by 5 different Lakes. Lake Kawaguchiko being the largest. Lake Saiko is the second largest & also the most beautiful. In order for me to get to Lake Sai, i need to catch the retro bus. The retro bus only runs once every 30minutes until 12pm & then once every 1 hour thereafter. I catch the bus at around 10am. it takes about 45 minutes to get to my location & the journey is wondeful. The scenery is very picturesque! My first stop is BatCave. I am so fuckin excited right now, i absolutely adore bats, amongst other things like octopus & ducks, however i am looking forward to getting in the cave. Immediately i notice - when ... read more

This blog is dedicated to my good friend Andy - who basically told me that if i didn't go to Fugi-Q (which i bloody would've anyway) he'd disown me...Well that is my translation of it. ;-) It's 6am and i'm awake, bright & early and not even tired!...I get up, take a shower, check the emails and head out for an early breakfast @ the cafe. No 2,000yen breakfasts for me...haha After my double-egg, sausage, bacon, salad & toast special (I fuckin love double-egg), I head off to Kawaguchiko station to catch the mini-rail to Fugi-Q. Fugi-Q Highland is the next stop on the line so the journey onyl takes 5 minutes. I arrive at the park @ 10am. It is pretty empty as it has only been open for 1 hour. I head straight to ... read more

Night Shibuya is an amazing part of town. The moment i get out of the station I am in absolutle love! - The place is feckin' huge!...The shops are huge, the streets are huge, the crossings are huge and the buildings are huge. It is everything i imagined Tokyo would be. I potter around for a while, i buy some donuts, look in the shops, buy a few bits for friends (Sandy I got you some amazing socks girl!), take in the sights and just generally killing time until i have to meet Tomoka @ 10pm for the Acid Techno party at Amrax Club. Amrax After yet another hour of getting lost around the worlds biggest train station (or at least the biggest i have been) I manage to meet Tomoka and head off to Amrax. ... read more