Sapporo to Tokyo

Phew, sorry we haven't posted in a while. We've spent most of our time since the last post travelling.

So now we are in London relaxing at my brother Chris' flat, which is awesome. But there was a lot that has gone on so this may be another long one...

So where Jen left you we were going to head out to the Sapporo Beer garden. We went there and it was nice. Sadly there wasn't any english so we just looked at the pictures and models. They had a big diarama setup of how beer is made, but it was elves in a magic garden making it, but they covered the basics.

We tried out some beer there and it was very nice. Jen had one and i had two, so we were feeling a little tipsy :) as we headed back to Sapporo to meet Olivia for one last night of Yakitori which was delicious.

So the next day we did the mission down to Tokyo, which was going to be 12 hours spread across three trains. During the section to Hakodate the conductor went through checking tickets, but when he saw ours he said something in Japanese at which we responded with "huh?". Our tickets were entirely in Japanese and i wasn't even sure that they said Tokyo on them. He looked a little troubled then went and got someone who spoke some english. She told us that we couldn't transfer at Hakodate to Hachinoe as our tickets said, but would instead transfer earlier. We we're a little concerned, thinking perhaps we had stumbled onto the wrong train, a reasonable assumption.

So after a small amount of panic between us, i went off to find the english speaking lady again and verify what our tickets said and to just make sure. Her english was pretty bad so i couldn't use sentences. But after a bit of trial and error i figured that our tickets said what i thought they did, and we had got on the right train. But that today there was some sort of problem at Hakodate and everyone would be transfering. So everything was fine, they transfered us where we needed to and we didn't miss any trains :)

We got to Tokyo before 8, and took a train out to Narita airport. Tonight we would be staying at the Hilton :D

The Hilton was pretty awesome, we had arrived late and decided to have room service for dinner. We donned our free robes and lived like kings for the night :) It was soo good to have a big soft bed.

In the morning we went out to Tokyo to see some of the sites. We missioned around a little bit didn't go too far from the station, went to the Imperial Palace, which you can't really look in, but we milled around the outside anyway. Took it easy for our last day in Japan.

I'll stop here because i'm getting tired :) Hopefully i'll finish this soon, or Jen will

Thanks for reading