Monday, 06 October 2003

Fish. It's what's for breakfast. If you love seafood—if your perfect day involves tuna for breakfast, noodles and fried fish for lunch, and a sushi platter for dinner—then Japan is your oyster. If, on the other hand, seafood is an occasional exception to your usual diet of beef, chicken, and potatoes… then you're in for a change of palate here. I walk away from most Japanese restaurants feeling like the main course never arrived, which is probably doing wonders for my health (to say nothing of all the walking around we're doing), but I'll look forward to a nice thick steak when we get home.

So far we've been to the Ginza shopping district, the kabuki theatre, the temples and waterfalls at Nikko, several other temples and shopping areas, and we've only scratched the surface; tomorrow we leave Tokyo for Mt. Fuji, and then on to Kyoto and Hiroshima. Blogging will be unlikely (I realize I said that last week, so consider the source), but I'll have lots of photos when I get home.

I've figured out what the problem with my e-mail was, but it's not something I can fix; my desktop computer back at home is downloading my e-mail off the server before my laptop can. So, I'll look forward to a six-week backlog of e-mail when I get home.

- Posted by Scott Forbes at 7:00 am. comments.