Warriors Dance Fest

The lineup: The Prodigy, MSTRKRFT, Hadouken!, autoKratz, South Central and Pendulum DJ's.

It got hectic. We got boozed and bruised, and built a fairly solid tower of plastic beer cups.

Kyoto

We stayed at the same hotel as Millie and I did last year, and in the morning we went for a stroll to the same shrine we went to last year. 

But this time we discovered a gorgeous garden around the back of the shrine and spent a good few hours strolling around taking in the sun.

A day at Nara deer park

 

Osaka Sky Tower

We visited the Osaka Sky Tower and realised the view would be much more spectacular at sunset, so we kept ourselves occupied for hours drinking beers, eating hotdogs and watching a game of what looked like dodgeball (we were 173m above the city so it was hard to tell). 

Japlan Number 2

Lessons learnt from the first time...

- Don't stay in $15 hotels! They are probably designed to house dirty minded old business men, in a bad area filled with sex shops and many many more dirty minded old men

- ALWAYS sit in the smoking carriage in the trains. Japan is full of novel ideas, and this is the best one

- Legal drinking age is 20... not 18 duh

- Go to more bars and clubs now that we ARE over 20

- Luggage is a pain in the ass. Ditch it

- Buy more disposable cameras and film because they are near impossible to re-fill in Australia

- Don't leave your awesome plastic umbrella in the train!

- Eat something other than Macca Dees, but still attempt to try everything on the Maccas menu =P 

- Make friends with the locals

- Buy more stuff! You're on holiday stupid! Splurge a little

- Hang out at parks like the locals

- Start drinking earlier in the day to avoid wasting the next day on a hangover

- Bring back more Kool Boost cigarettes! You WILL miss them when you run out and savour your very last one 'til new years. Yes, they ARE that amazing

- If there is peach toilet paper in the hotel, STEAL IT!!!

3 days to go, and counting =)

-Jac