It's clogging up my hard drive so I'm dumping it here. Hth.
3 airports, 2 hotels
and only one has working wifi.
got stuck in toronto because of the weather, and missed our connecting flight in narita to osaka. they tried to stick us on the shinkansen, but getting through customs took so long that we missed the last train out of the airport. instead, we overnighted in narita, and flew out to osaka at 10am the next morning. finally made it to nishinomiya at about 11am August 2 (it’s august 3 right now in japan).
the cicadas are so. loud. it sounds like someone is drilling outside.
i can’t upload pictures until i get back to canada, but rest assured there will be many a one.