Travel Update – Japan

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So I haven’t posted on my blog in two days. That’s the first time in nearly three years I haven’t had a post go out. Honestly though, I think this is a good opportunity for me to take a little bit of a break and when I return home get back into my schedule.

Cherry Blossoms
And there’s still blossoms. I was worried I had missed them all but there are still plenty of flower to go and see if only the weather would cooperate.

The flight went smoothly enough from Brisbane to Japan with a very brief stop in Korea. The biggest issue being the delay at BNE meant that my one hour to get through security and to my connection turned into 25 minutes and of course the connecting flight was at the far end. I made it barely a minute before boarding began and was very happy to sink back into my economy class chair and fall asleep for the final leg of the flight.

Venus Fort and Ferris Wheel Odaiba

If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know I spent most of yesterday just kind of wandering around Odaiba. It was very fun in an aimless kind of way and kept me mostly out of the rain. In the evening we stopped by Tokyo Station to sort out some tickets because in a couple of days I’m taking an overnight trip down to Kyoto.

Gundam

Probably my highlight from yesterday was finding a gatcha machine that had key chains from Run With The Wind in it. Of course I fed it my coins and it gave me Musa. I was tempted to try again but then the UFO catcher with Sakura from Cardcaptor caught my eye. It certainly did a good job of cleaning out my change and did not yield its prize. Going to be honest, I just kind of suck. I did however have a few rounds of space invaders while in the arcade and that was just pure fun.

Space Invaders

Today, I’ve had an early breakfast before my friend has had to brave rush hour on the trains to get to work and we’re meeting up later to go look at some blossoms and do the silly tourist things that tourists do. I’m killing some time back at the apartment because nothing opens until 10 or 11 anyway so I’d rather save my feet and walking for when there are things open but I’m going to meander around the local shopping district and see what I can find before slowly making my way toward Ueno.

Crows in the shopping district
By the way, these crows clearly have it in for people in the shopping district. One of them threw an avocado shell at me while I was walking. Another dropped a bag on a woman who passed underneath them. Then they sit up there and caw at people.

All and all, I’m having a great time and looking forward to what the next couple of days bring.


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Snapshot of The Holiday

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Okay, definitely not an anime related post, but I have just gotten back from a trip so for those interested here are some photos from my journey to Hawaii. I know, it is very odd that someone who hates the ocean would travel to an island known for its beaches, but I didn’t go for the beach. We have beaches in Australia. I went because I wanted to see the active volcanoes  and explore the lava flows and I was not disappointed.

That said, I kind of loved the flowers and scenery and really just had a lot of fun wandering around and snapping photos (I left the food photos out). I just wish I could have spent a bit longer in some places and not so long in others but that’s always the problem when you travel with a group, having to move at the pace of others.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who continued to visit the blog while I was away. Sorry I wasn’t very active online (I did try to get to people’s blogs but know I kind of failed most days). Okay, that’s all for this post and next week I’m back to the usual posting schedule, only I’m a few weeks behind on most of the currently streaming anime.


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