I'm in Osaka right now and its great, there is so much soul to this place. Great food, loads of shops a bit like Manchester but in the east! I was in Tokyo for the first 5 days and the place was a bit like London-a really really big scary city, followed by Kyoto for 4 days (I'm a bit overdosed on spirituality at the moment, Kyoto has over 2000 shrines and temples...to be honest with you,once you've seen one you'seen them all......all the temples I've seen so far are beginning to merge into one big super temple in my mind-I can't even remember half the names of the ones I've seen....) Also visited a whole series of places on the side,including Hakone (where Mount Fuji is located); Nara (not much to see except loads of
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