it is time.

Japan : Ja•pan (j-pn)

(日本, Nippon/Nihon, literally "the origin of the sun") - country east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. It is comprised of a chain of islands.

Correct. That was where I was at a month ago now. Lets see if I can do it 10 bullet points.

Ichi - Arrived in Cairns, 3.5 hour delay. Bitchface. So we chortled and made up games. We now have alias-es, welcome Chuck, Pepper and Elliot.

Flight to Japan was pain, so we popped some travelcalms and .. avatar unplugged. Hello Japan. I curse myself for bringing a large suitcase. Thankyou big brother and your strong arms.

Ni - Hiroshima/Dontonbori - Hiroshima was sad times. But we had some happy times.

Okonomiyaki and Kirin. You may be the best thing that has happened so far.

San - Shin-Osaka/Shinjuku/TokyoDome -
I lied. Freak out already, replace english muffins with hotcake buns + eggs + bacon = best. ever. maccas. breakfast. You may be the best thing that has happened so far. Ha!

This made me a very happy girl.
Note pen in hand.



Even on your eyebrows. AMAZING. Imagine moustachies on your brows. Teehee.
You sleep, you will die. Well not really, you will just get moustaches.

We had amazing vending machine ramen. I love ramen. Its like meegoreng, but Japanese. with soup. and eggs. and stuff. And you all know how much I love meegoreng.


Might I add, Shinkansen I heart you. Where art thou in Sydney? Ba!


Shi - Harajuku/Shibuya/Akihabara

Holy beegeebees. This was heaven. We didnt have time for Yoyogi park to do a pedo on the Harajuku girls but we got a good amount of it at the Lotteria ladiesrooms. We met crazy cool people and Jamaican looking men that sold rapper hats and funky wear. Chuck bought rocking shoes. Pepper bought Lilo merch. I bought a hat. My head is reasonably sized. Took a photo with Tetsuya who sold me my hat. He was short, he was meant to grab my waist but instead held my butt. I was cool.

Go - Tsukiji Fish Markets/Imperial Palace/Asakusa

Japanese people sure know how to feed their people. EVERYTHING WENT.. IN MA BELLY. We also saw ninjas. But, they were just handling out pamphlets to the nearest boobie place.

Ps red bean cakes rocks my world.

Roku - Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens-Tokyo Bay-Ginza

To think that we were going into winter, and things were dieing, leaves were withering and dropping off trees was definately no way to describe it. Because although true, the gardens were beautiful, the fire red autumn leaves were just falling and drifting and the mellow in the yellow warms you right up. We felt like dancing. So we did.

Dance with me tree! Eat your heart out! Im going to CARRY YOU!

Also we saw a bike fine. So we took a photo of it.

We finished the night eating Takoyaki balls. Yep, take them balls and eat it. Teehee.
I also thought it’d be funny if I started leaving my shoes in random places on the street to see if Chuck and Pepper would find them.

Hello good lookin shoe.


Nana - Osaka Castle-Umeda
Chuck donned the emperor's gear at the Osaka Castle and we took photos of his face. Then other people gathered arnd him in his gear and he got awkward.

Ps Shabu Shabu I love you.



Hachi - Kyoto
This place was dope. Made me feel like a true tourist. But like... a Japanese tourist. Because we were in Japan. But loved it. Everybit of it. Especially the soy icecream. This was sex. Well the udon was sex. Or maybe the soba. Oh man the red bean cakes were sex. Everything was sex. No joke.

Ku - Osaka Aquarium/Kaiyukan
We saw whale sharks. They were sharks the size of whales. Well, little whales, and they had their crew swimming with them, like a little battle crew. It started to get really windy, so windy that we almost did a Mary Poppins. Maybe that was why our flight was delayed by another good 4 hours. Well hello Kirin.

Ju - the wrap up

Japan was awerrsome. The people are so gentle. The food is so lovely. The weather was so pleasant. Hello to daytime porn. Hello to crazy toilets and water taps. Hello to sweet action food at every vending machine. I will see you in a few months.

But most of all, thankyou to the el big brodo for being so funny and making us laugh throughout the whole trip, and thankyou Pepper for your crazy energy and showing us around the land of magnificento.

Also Ive realised that the above blog does not include many Japanese photos. They are on ze facebook, and lonelyplanet.com and all forms of tourist magazines. Because damn right, my photos replicate those that are the million dollar shots. Don’t want to BOREDOM you.

Hows that for 10 crazy bullet points. Someone give me a gold star. Or some looooOOoVE.

Ok thanks bye.

xx

/edit: sorry this post took forever, the wireless was broken-ed.