Last entry.. Internet aint working too well so most of the videos never uploaded. The first few of these pictures are of the HIlton in Narita... not quite as nice as the one in Shinjuku, but still pretty good. Much more western in style too, larger rooms. A few pictures of Terminal 1 Narita, this was my first time there (JAL flies out of the nicer Terminal 2), but wasn't too bad. The flight itself was pretty good, lots of room to spread out which was nice. Also while waiting for the other guys to board the plane I ended up [View Full Entry]

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Friday we spent in Odaiba, the man made island in Tokyo which as we found up you could easily spend a couple days here. After screwing up and taking the completely wrong train, we finally made it to the central part of the island. First place we stumbled on was the Fuji TV Station, a MASSIVE and amazingly cool building we went up and bought a few knickknacks from the store and some shots of the surrounding area. From there we explored the water front area and ran into some cool wildlife like birds, Jelly Fish, and even a snake which [View Full Entry]

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I believe I have some catching up to do. Breaking this up to limit the pictures per entry... mind is a bit hazy still from Jet Lag, consider yourself warned! Wednesday we spent out checking the two "Fashionable" areas, Shibuya and Harajuku. Ended up having a pretty good time checking out the stores and such in the 109 Building (bought a T-Shirt I liked) before heading over to Harajuku. Checked out an extremely high end shopping mall, as well as some flagship stores for Tokyo like Nike and some other Japan specific places. The evening we all met up with Jason, [View Full Entry]

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We ended up staying at the Hilton in Narita... about $70 a person and free shuttle. Wasn't too bad, a lot more "western" style then the one in Tokyo. Thanks to Aaron's Hilton membership we got to check out at 3pm instead of 11, which is great since today's flight doesn't leave until 9:20pm. The place here has an amazingly nice lobby and the one lounge had live jazz music here (just poked my head in). Rooms themselves are decent, but nothing that special. Tiny TV. The flight to Honolulu is about 7 hours we figure, and hopefully can check out [View Full Entry]

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Well my flight left a few hours ago... and I'm still in Japan. Yup, that is exactlly what it sounds like. Issue with the timing of the flight and so now we had to rebook. Cost an extra $250 per person (plus $70 per person for the extra night now in Narita Airport). Initially the next available flight from Seattle (where we originally were connecting through) was on July 12th. We had them dig more, and found us a flight tomorrow. tomorrowISH. Here's the scoop (all times are local to that city): Leave Japan at 21:20, arrive in HONOLULU at 9:30AM. [View Full Entry]

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Havent had much of a chance to get on the net with the Hiltons outrageous internet costs. Got about an your for uploading a few more pics. Met up with Aaron, Matt, and Ronnie at Shinjuku after a bit of a wait and after checking in wandered about Shinjuku a bit. Went to a rather interesting little spot for food where you choose your order from a vending machine then take your order to the counter where they take it and give you food. interesting system. The next day we started off in Akiba, checked out the little shops and computer [View Full Entry]

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Well, turns out although the Hilton DOES offer internet, it's at an amazingly expensive price of 48 Yen per MINUTE, thats about 50 cents. Suffice to say other then a VERY quick check of email and such I never really got the chance to do any uploading of these last few entries. Other then that the hotel was great, I've stayed in better but not many. Helpful English speaking staff, large bed and good location can't be beat. The night in Nagoya was much needed, I didn't really do much after arriving. I headed into the downtown for a bit, checked [View Full Entry]

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For Rod's final day in Japan we made the day trip to Kamakura, it's rated right up there with Nikko for Shrines, Temples, and other cultural "stuffs". Could have started off better, the instructions on how to get there was pretty bad. We got the Kamakura JR Pass, but everything was in Japanese and no instructions provided. After much wandering we figured out the proper track AND proper train, and were on our way. Kamakura is a small village, small being a relative term. Our first stop was at a Zen Buddhist Temple, Kencho-ji. Never been to a Zen temple before. [View Full Entry]

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Note - in a rush to enter these before their plane lands so the pics might be outa order... Writing this from the Hikari Super Express 517. Left Tokyo for the night, heading into Nagoya before returning to Tokyo to meet up with Aaron and his friends. Rod departed for Edmonton, thankfully all of our return flights go through Seattle, cuts 3 hours off the flight time roughly. Leaving off from where I last wrote, the following day we started off in Shinjuku. Needed to get the lay of the land for meeting up with Aaron there, as well we checked [View Full Entry]

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Short update for today, bit wiped. Day three was back to just me and Rod - Pablo and Yoshiko were wanting to hit the fish market around 5am, something neither of us were interested in. First stop was Akihabara to check out some of the smaller locale's. Some of the stores are quite interesting, very otaku-ish (otaku = geek). Lots of Computers, Electronics, and enough parts to build your own if you wanted to. Some of the shops are nothing but a small nook in the side of a building while others span 8 floors. Probably going to buy something here [View Full Entry]

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