Natsukashi Nihon

The coming winter in Ireland is replaced by a humid indian summer in Japan, after a 12 hour plane trip from London to Tokyo. We flew into Narita, Tokyo and then booked into a guest house in the area.
We met my old Austar workmate Micheal and his family the next day. The kids had a great play at a park near their house.
The next day, it was off on the shinkansen (bullet train) to Kyoto. Our kids love Japanese food, so they were in heaven, with all of the onigiri, soba and great Kansai food like okonomiyaki. Kyoto and Osaka was a bit of a homecoming for Kelly and I, as it was where we met and got married. We managed to catch up with some old friends during the visit, but not as many as we wanted to.
After a few days in Kyoto, it was back on the shinkansen to Tokyo. I met Michael for a final day of geeking out at the Japanese techie shopping district, Akihabira, and then off to Bangkok the next day.