Archive for March, 2005

New Koyo is the name of the youth hostel in Tokyo that we’re staying in. It’s tucked away down an alleyway in what appears to be a dodgy part of town. There’s a lot of homeless people around which I wasn’t really expecting and the buildings themselves are old and...

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I woke up at 7:30 for a traditional Japanese breakfast made lovingly by the youth hostel kitchen. It was pretty crap – a bowl of gohan (rice) with seasoning, some miso soup (which was nice), and 4 segments of mandarin (Mikan) and a few biscuits. After we packed up all...

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We got to Kansai international at 7:00 in the morning. There isn’t really that much difference between Kansai and Perth – although they’ve invented a cartoon ‘Customs Hamster’ who has a customs badge and a little hat and delivers messages about customs in many different languages. We got off the...

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Being the cool happening place Malaysia is, they’ve set up a wireless network in the KL airport. At the moment, i’m sitting in a Burger King in the international lobby thing. At the moment it’s 10:45, and our connecting flight to Japan is at 11:55 so we’ve got some time...

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Hello there. Welcome to my blog. I’ve made this blog so I can document my trip to Japan. On the 22nd of March, Im flying over to Japan for four months as part of my uni course. I’m staying in a town called Himeji, which is famous for the beautiful...

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