I’m not an Apple fan-boy but I do love the iPhone 4. It’s s000o close to becoming the one device I take with me everywhere. If the camera was good enough I can’t think of much else I’d ever take with me.

Seamless… that’s the best word to describe it. It just works! Everything…just…works. How many other things in your life are like that?

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2010.12.29 – I drew this a few months ago, but never got around to posting it. It’s not anyone I know, but rather a picture off the internet. I just wanted to practice facial features and hair.

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It’s been a looooong time since I last posted… I’m going to attempt to get some stuff up soon.

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Osaka Aquarium is one of the largest public aquariums in the world and has a tank called the Pacific Ocean with two whale sharks and multiple other species of large fish.

An aquarium is an aquarium, but I’ve never seen two whale sharks up close like that, so it was worth it.

Gallery below.

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After seeing Himeji Castle, Korakuen garden and Okayama castle, I didn’t arrive into Hiroshima until late. Too late to see any sights; I attempted to book a cheap hotel.

Having booked a place through hostel world and marked it on my map, I headed to find it. I walked around for maybe two hours in this neighborhood before giving up. Being sure of the map location given by the reservation sight (but apparently not sure enough), I didn’t write down the address or phone number so no-one around me could even help.

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Trains are a part of life in Japan. In the big cities you take the subway trains, to get between towns you take the long distance express trains called ‘Shinkansens’. I’m sure most everyone had heard about Japan’s bullet trains.

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At Okayama is Korakuen garden which is one of the top three most famous gardens in Japan. As it was in the middle of the way from Himeji Castle to Hiroshima, it was just a matter of jumping off the train at Okayama and finding the right direction.

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Himeji Castle is an amazing example of Japanese architecture from the Edo period, and one of the few castles that was never ruined through war.

Unfortunately for me, they are currently undergoing repairs on the interior and I couldn’t see inside. But even worse for visitors in the near future is that they will soon be fixing the whole outside and it will be draped in cloth and unviewable at all. The price of keeping it looking like it does though.

See the gallery of pics below

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After the Golden Week tour I planned to stay in Tokyo for a while, but had no real plans on where to stay.

I put in a few last minute requests for couchsurfing and Byard from New Zealand, who has been living in Japan for the last 10 years, answered to say yes. We set it up to stay Thursday and Friday nights, but in the end I also stayed Saturday night too.

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I really wanted to see two Japanese cultural events while I’m here in Japan. Sumo and Kabuki. And I got the chance the other day to go to a Sumo event. This is actually harder than I had initially thought it would be, as there are only three Sumo festivals per year and then each of the festivals only have 15 days of Sumo.

I was very fortunate for the spring event to be being held while I am here in Tokyo and then to have a group that I met be going so I wasn’t completely clueless about where to go and what was going on.

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