Spent our last day OS seeking out a few faves...
Rach smashed her second Haagen-Daas crepe in 24hrs (strawberry cheesecake) while Trav finally was in the mood for a sugar high when near a Mello Yello.
Trav also scored a Japanese 4pen with a mechanical pencil built in. We lost all sense of being while on the Diamaru stationery floor.
We have been really surprised by Japan, Tokyo in particular. It is such a huge city, people and infrastructure, but it has a real chilled out feeling. Almost melancholic.
There are exciting parts of Tokyo, but by and large people just get on with things, on their own, without fuss. Local religion and living on one of the worlds most active faults probably contribute to this.
We will really miss the tempura, the Japanese chocolate, the vending machine culture and the respect that is universal. It is so calm here, and this rubs off on you the minute you hit the ground.
Europe and US was new and exciting, but kind of expected. Japan was a real eye opener, where we had to throw all the usual rules out of the window to fit in.
New and old in Tokyo/ vending machines/ still traveling light and saving 60 bucks by catching the subway to the airport (later spent on excess baggage fee...)/ about to board our flight to Australia
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