Hi, I'm still alive
Don't be too disappointed, no trains I took has been derailed, plane shot down, or subway gassed.

Its been real fun this trip, got to see many Japanese (schoolgirls [Have you seen them?]), practice my Japanese on them (I don't they heard me speaking Japanese), eat horrendously overpriced food (a bowl of noodles costs $6 at the very least [I didn't eat too much of those])

A Brief Description:
Day 1: Arrive at Narita, take a 90 minute train to Tokyo. Eat my first bowl of noodles
Day 2: Walk around the place, get lost in subway station (Shinjuku [It has 50 or more exits, and serves about 10 train lines). Eat my second bowl of noodles
Day 3: Try to go to museums, find out that all of them close on Mondays. Eat in a shop (no noodles), put Japanese to practical use
Day 4: Take Shinkansen to Matsushima (Matsushima! Ah! Matsushima, Matsushima!) Enjoy the third best view in Japan
Day 5: Take Shinkansen to Hakodate (In Hokkaido), see crabs with 30 cm legs, among other things. Practice Japanese at yakitori-ya, end up ordering some weird sashimi (kujira).
Day 6: Take train to Sapporo, have third bowl of noodles.
Day 7: Wander around Sapporo and environs, have okomiyaki. (While outside, respectable-looking men stand at street corners wearing sandwich boards with certain pictures on them)
Day 8: Go to a town with hot springs, have Gengis Khan for lunch (they call it jingisukan)
Day 9: Depart, sadly, for Singapore

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