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** Share an umbrella with an old lady who is amazed at John's stature and finds us the right bus stop.

** Get to 'Fuji Hakone' ryokan in <s>Moto-Hakone</s> Sengokuhara (having discovered in time that there are two ryokan with the same name).

** Eat horse mackerel and tempura everything at a restaurant around the corner.

** Eat horse mackerel and tempura everything at a restaurant around the corner (we never had lunch).

* Mon 19th:

** Breakfast at the ryokan with slightly underdone toast.

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** Head to the castle, narrowly missing a Funky Monkey Babys concert. Wander round the castle, eating octopus balls and jaywalking like crazy.

** Look at the centre of Osaka. Light shopping and a Ferris wheel ride.

** Phil stays in the hotel and sleeps off jet lag. Everyone else goes around the corner to a sushi restaurant.

** Phil stays in the hotel and sleeps off jet lag. Everyone else goes around the corner to a sushi restaurant (John's favourite sushi of the trip).

* Tue 20th:

** Breakfast at Mielparque.

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** Drink the waters of Kiyomizudera.

** Temple fatigue.

** Lunch in a trendy ~~cafe~~ in Kyoto.

** Lunch in a trendy café in Kyoto.

*** More like a restaurant over a shop, and it was on the main temple approach road

* Eat ice-cream and cake in the awesome station again.

** Most too tired for dinner, but John, Lmm, and Emma go to a ramen noodle café. Emma gets the most vegetarian option -- a pork soup which "only tastes of meat a little".

* Wed 21st:

** Breakfast at Mielparque again.

** Take a slightly odd (but JR powered and involving a boat) route to Osaka aquarium, and spend all morning there.

** Lunch in Osaka station - our first taste of Okonomiyaki

** Lunch in Osaka station - our first taste of Okonomiyaki.

** Buy bentos for train

** Buy bentos for train.

** Train towards Fujiyama for most of the afternoon, and then a bus to K's House.

** Train towards Fujiyama for most of the afternoon, and then a bus to K's House. Most people don't eat their bentos until after we arrive.

** Both K's House and the bar around the corner turn out to be full of gaijin.

* Thu 22nd:

** Train to Fujikyu Highlands almost in time for opening. Some consternation over dropping off bags.

** ~~Rather large lunch~~ at Fujikyu. The Q in its name turns out to be appropriate & not much gets done in the afternoon.

** Diverse lunches at Fujikyu. The Q in its name turns out to be appropriate & not much gets done in the afternoon.

** Leave just in time for the train to Tokyo.

** ~~What did we do for dinner? Was that the restaurant~~ with the buzzers?

** Restaurant with the buzzers as recommended by the hostel keeper. John discovers the pit beneath the table the hard way.

*** Yes, must've been

* Fri 23rd:

** Get up unsure of what to do. Decide to see kabuki.

** Route march through the government building district to Tokyo ~~Towers~~. Glimpse it as we rush past to the National Theatre.

** Route march through the government building district to Tokyo Tower.

** Kabuki continues forever and ever

** Breakfast at a trendy café with plastic-wrapped cake.

** Wander around Shinjuku in the evening. Take forever to find a fondue place for dinner

** Glimpse tower as we rush past to the National Theatre.

** Dan hits the gay bars. Lmm goes to the cinema, sees the Eureka Seven film.

** See http://www.kabuki21.com/kumagai.php. Lunch during the first interval. Dan had croquette sandwiches. Kabuki continues forever and ever.

** Wander around Shinjuku in the evening. Take forever to find the worst of most worlds in a fondue place for dinner.

** Dan hits the gay bars, namely Advocates, and then gets taken on to Dragon, which has gaijin barmen in undies.

** Lmm goes to the cinema, sees the Eureka Seven film.

** Everyone else goes back to the hostel and Emma builds an unassailable lead in the Königsrufen averages for the trip.

* Sat 24th:

** Go to the anime fair. It turns out not to actually contain much

** Breakfast takeaway from Mister Donut.

** Lmm sees the awesome ~~pretty cure~~ stage show. Everyone else discovers the maritime museum to be closed

** Go to the anime fair. It turns out not to actually contain much.

** Science museum. Asimo walks a bit

** Lmm sees the awesome Pretty Cure stage show. Everyone else discovers the maritime museum to be closed.

** Evening trip to Akihabara

** Science museum. Asimo walks a bit. Send messages with a working model of Internet. Varied physicist simulations.

** Pay museum prices for a buffet lunch, which we are determined to get our money's worth of.

** Take in a disappointing anime in the museum's planetarium.

** Evening trip to Akihabara. Much consternation as we keep getting split up.

** Dinner at a Chinese place, with greater-than-usual linguistic hurdles and multiple erroneous drinks orders.

** Mickey, Dan, Phil, and Emma go to the local onsen, round the corner from the ryokan.

*** Average age is lower than Dan expects.

*** The "electric bath" feels like having pins and needles where one should not have pins and needles.

*** Mickey rediscovers Galileo's Principle by getting in and out of the electric bath very quickly.

* Sun 25th:

** Laundry in the morning

** John is ill and stays in bed.

** Laundry in the morning.

** John breakfasts alone at Mister Donut again and feels a bit better.

** Wander around the temple in Asakusa. Lmm buys a suitcase.

** Head out to the suburbs for Mike's ''~~cafe~~''. It turns out to require tickets.

** Head out to the suburbs for Mike's ''café''. It turns out to require advance tickets.

** Eat okonomiyaki at a place that actually uses the hot plate

** Eat okonomiyaki at a place that actually uses the hot plate. Phil and John accidentally order chicken gristle.

** Harajuku. Walk around the park a bit, and the fancy shops.

** Harajuku. Walk around the park a bit, and the fancy shops. Both turn out to be largely devoid of cosplayers, but there are one or two.

** Lmm and Mike head back to Akihabara. Mike insists Lmm direct him where to buy his porn. Lmm runs away as soon as possible, and finds a ''~~cafe~~''.

** Dan sees a costume show in the Evangelion shop.

** Lmm and Mike head back to Akihabara. Mike insists Lmm direct him where to buy his porn. Lmm runs away as soon as possible, and finds [http://filles.jp/ a ''café''].

** John goes back to bed, braving a vending machine noodle bar with apparent success.

** Other people try to see Shinjuku Gyoen, but it is already closed, so we instead see everything from the top of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building tower.

** In the evening we meet a girl from Chicago. She and Lmm arrange to go to the fish market.

* Mon 26th:

** Lmm gets up ungodly early. The girl does not. Lmm watches some anime and goes back to sleep.

** Some packing and the like in the morning. Decide we want to go to Osaka today, probably on the 15:30 or 16:30 shinkansen.

** ~~Breakfast~~ in the temple district

** Turns out the drum museum around the corner is closed, but Emma buys shoes.

** ~~Did we do anything else~~ in the ~~morning?~~

** Wander round the market stalls in the temple district, eating ice-cream and sweet bread.

** Head back to ~~akihabara~~ for lunch and a little last shopping

** Breakfast in a street that turns out to be full of cafés. Dan thanks the food server effusively.

** Fail to say goodbye properly to Emma

** Head back to Akihabara for lunch and a little last shopping. Decide to split up this time and everyone has a better time.

** MELON BREAD

** Fail to say goodbye properly to Emma.

** Catch the train to Osaka as planned

** MELON BREAD, and assorted other deliciousness from the bakery in Akihabara station.

** Eat at a ~~cafe~~ in Osaka station. Everyone has carbonara. Exciting frozen drinks.

** Catch the train to Osaka as planned.

** Eat at a café in Osaka station. Everyone but Dan has carbonara. Exciting frozen drinks.

** Discover we have 18 beds between the six of us at the Smile Hotel.

* Tue 27th:

** Early plane to Yakushima

** Breakfast at the Smile Hotel.

** Discover no-one can drive

** Early plane to Yakushima.

** Discover no-one has the ryokan's address

** Discover no-one can drive.

** Get bus passes, and bus, and eventually get to ryokan

** Discover no-one has the ryokan's address.

** Go to Senpiro's waterfall. Walk down the mountain

** Get bus passes, and bus, and eventually get to ryokan.

** Onsen

** Go to Senpiro's waterfall. Some photography. Walk down the mountain talking loudly about twenty questions.

** Exceedingly traditional ~~japanese~~ dinner at the ~~guesthouse~~

** Onsen.

** Exceedingly traditional Japanese dinner at the ryokan.

* Wed 28th:

** Traditional Japanese breakfast at the ~~guesthouse~~

** Traditional Japanese breakfast at the ryokan.

** By bus to ~~the place of trees~~

** By bus to Shiragani Unsuikyo.

** 5 hours of hiking

** 5 hours of hiking, eating snacks along the way which roughly constitute lunch.

** Bus back, booking jetfoil on the way

** Climb a mountain for http://hpmor.com/chapter/81.

** Dinner at the restaurant opposite the ~~guesthouse~~

** Bus back, booking jetfoil on the way. Also a little souvenir shopping just outside Miyanoura.

** Dinner at the restaurant opposite the ryokan.

* Thur 29th:

** Traditional Japanese breakfast

** ~~Catch~~ the jetfoil

** Bus to Miyanoura and catch the jetfoil. A little more souvenir shopping at the ferry terminal.

** Lunch at the Steak & Hamburg in Kagoshima

** Lunch at the Steak & Hamburg in Kagoshima.

** Train it up to Fukuoka

** Train it up to Fukuoka.

** Check into hotel, then visit ~~canal city~~

** Check into hotel, then visit Canal City.

** Watch a dude with some impressive diabolo skillz

** Watch a dude with some impressive diabolo skillz.

** ~~Watch~~ a japanese schoolgirl acquire chocolate

** Dan nearly buys a watch.

** Back to the hotel as the shops shut

** Everyone else watches a japanese schoolgirl acquire a few dozen bars of chocolate for at least 6000円.

** Mickey acquires two figurines for 2500円

** Dinner at our third okonomiyaki place where the hotplate sees extensive use and melon soda is discovered to be better than reports suggested (not hard).

** Back to the hotel as the shops shut.

* Fri 30th:

** Morning shinkansen

** Morning shinkansen.

** Gets us to Hiroshima at some point

** Gets us to Hiroshima at some point.

** Visit the memorial and museum

** Visit the memorial and museum.

** Late lunch in this underground place, with bartering and cocktails

** John buys a suitcase.

** Lmm runs off to catch the pretty cure all stars movie

** Late lunch in this underground place, with bartering (between ourselves) and cocktails. John discovers there may in fact be drinks worth paying money for.

** Evening karaoke

** Lmm runs off to catch the pretty cure all stars movie.

** Fail to find a mahjong club for 3

** Evening karaoke. Ben orders much sake, which is worth it as it arrives in traditional bottles with the little ceramic cups.

** A little drinking at a bar. Ben orders much plum wine

** Dinner is snacks in the karaoke place followed by cakes from the exciting cake shop nearby.

** Fail to find a mahjong club for 3.

** A little drinking at a bar. Ben orders much plum wine. John is almost tempted into alcoholism.

* Sat 31st:

** Himeji on the way, but only for an hour or so

** Himeji on the way, but only for an hour or so.

** Back to the ryokan

** Back to the ryokan.

** Dinner in that place on the 4th floor near the ryokan, (with the buzzers)

** Dinner in that place on the 4th floor near the ryokan, (with the buzzers).

** Back to Akihabara one last time

** Back to Akihabara one last time. John succumbs to temptation and joins the figurine crowd.

** John and Lmm have a protracted and entirely superfluous negotiation over exchange of mass and volume in suitcases.

** Dan sees Kappabashi Kitchenware Town Street when it is closed.

** Dan goes on to a ''club'' in Asakusa (in the temple district, near the amusement park).

* Sun 1st:

** All but Ben and Lmm fly home in the morning

** All but Ben and Lmm fly home in the morning.

** Fertility festival in Kawasaki. It is full of ~~american~~ tourists, and we can't get any lollies

*** Breakfast in a café in the airport, after a lot of looking for the best option and finding they are all much the same.

* Fertility festival in Kawasaki. It is full of American tourists, and we can't get any lollies.

** Early lunch at a traditional japanese noodle bar. We watch some baseball.

** Watch the parade. Haha, penis.

** Ben heads to book his ferry ticket

** Ben heads to book his ferry ticket.

** Lmm makes a brief ticket to Akihabara, locates (but does not enter, as it is not yet open) the infamous LittleBSD ~~cafe~~, then goes to Shinjuku and watches the Strike Witches movie.

** Lmm makes a brief ticket to Akihabara, locates (but does not enter, as it is not yet open) the infamous LittleBSD ''café'', then goes to Shinjuku and watches the Strike Witches movie.

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 ** Share an umbrella with an old lady who is amazed at John's stature and finds us the right bus stop.
 ** Get to 'Fuji Hakone' ryokan in <s>Moto-Hakone</s> Sengokuhara (having discovered in time that there are two ryokan with the same name).
-** Eat horse mackerel and tempura everything at a restaurant around the corner.
+** Eat horse mackerel and tempura everything at a restaurant around the corner (we never had lunch).
 * Mon 19th:
 ** Breakfast at the ryokan with slightly underdone toast.
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 ** Head to the castle, narrowly missing a Funky Monkey Babys concert. Wander round the castle, eating octopus balls and jaywalking like crazy.
 ** Look at the centre of Osaka. Light shopping and a Ferris wheel ride.
-** Phil stays in the hotel and sleeps off jet lag. Everyone else goes around the corner to a sushi restaurant.
+** Phil stays in the hotel and sleeps off jet lag. Everyone else goes around the corner to a sushi restaurant (John's favourite sushi of the trip).
 * Tue 20th:
 ** Breakfast at Mielparque.
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 ** Drink the waters of Kiyomizudera.
 ** Temple fatigue.
-** Lunch in a trendy cafe in Kyoto.
+** Lunch in a trendy café in Kyoto.
 *** More like a restaurant over a shop, and it was on the main temple approach road
 * Eat ice-cream and cake in the awesome station again.
+** Most too tired for dinner, but John, Lmm, and Emma go to a ramen noodle café.  Emma gets the most vegetarian option -- a pork soup which "only tastes of meat a little".
 * Wed 21st:
 ** Breakfast at Mielparque again.
 ** Take a slightly odd (but JR powered and involving a boat) route to Osaka aquarium, and spend all morning there.
-** Lunch in Osaka station - our first taste of Okonomiyaki
+** Lunch in Osaka station - our first taste of Okonomiyaki.
-** Buy bentos for train
+** Buy bentos for train.
-** Train towards Fujiyama for most of the afternoon, and then a bus to K's House.
+** Train towards Fujiyama for most of the afternoon, and then a bus to K's House.  Most people don't eat their bentos until after we arrive.
 ** Both K's House and the bar around the corner turn out to be full of gaijin.
 * Thu 22nd:
 ** Train to Fujikyu Highlands almost in time for opening. Some consternation over dropping off bags.
-** Rather large lunch at Fujikyu. The Q in its name turns out to be appropriate & not much gets done in the afternoon.
+** Diverse lunches at Fujikyu. The Q in its name turns out to be appropriate & not much gets done in the afternoon.
 ** Leave just in time for the train to Tokyo.
-** What did we do for dinner? Was that the restaurant with the buzzers?
+** Restaurant with the buzzers as recommended by the hostel keeper.  John discovers the pit beneath the table the hard way.
-*** Yes, must've been
 * Fri 23rd:
 ** Get up unsure of what to do. Decide to see kabuki.
-** Route march through the government building district to Tokyo Towers. Glimpse it as we rush past to the National Theatre.
+** Route march through the government building district to Tokyo Tower.
-** Kabuki continues forever and ever
+** Breakfast at a trendy café with plastic-wrapped cake.
-** Wander around Shinjuku in the evening. Take forever to find a fondue place for dinner
+** Glimpse tower as we rush past to the National Theatre.
-** Dan hits the gay bars. Lmm goes to the cinema, sees the Eureka Seven film.
+** See http://www.kabuki21.com/kumagai.php. Lunch during the first interval. Dan had croquette sandwiches. Kabuki continues forever and ever.
+** Wander around Shinjuku in the evening. Take forever to find the worst of most worlds in a fondue place for dinner.
+** Dan hits the gay bars, namely Advocates, and then gets taken on to Dragon, which has gaijin barmen in undies.
+** Lmm goes to the cinema, sees the Eureka Seven film.
+** Everyone else goes back to the hostel and Emma builds an unassailable lead in the Königsrufen averages for the trip.
 * Sat 24th:
-** Go to the anime fair. It turns out not to actually contain much
+** Breakfast takeaway from Mister Donut.
-** Lmm sees the awesome pretty cure stage show. Everyone else discovers the maritime museum to be closed
+** Go to the anime fair. It turns out not to actually contain much.
-** Science museum. Asimo walks a bit
+** Lmm sees the awesome Pretty Cure stage show. Everyone else discovers the maritime museum to be closed.
-** Evening trip to Akihabara
+** Science museum. Asimo walks a bit. Send messages with a working model of Internet. Varied physicist simulations.
+** Pay museum prices for a buffet lunch, which we are determined to get our money's worth of.
+** Take in a disappointing anime in the museum's planetarium.
+** Evening trip to Akihabara. Much consternation as we keep getting split up.
+** Dinner at a Chinese place, with greater-than-usual linguistic hurdles and multiple erroneous drinks orders.
+** Mickey, Dan, Phil, and Emma go to the local onsen, round the corner from the ryokan.
+*** Average age is lower than Dan expects.
+*** The "electric bath" feels like having pins and needles where one should not have pins and needles.
+*** Mickey rediscovers Galileo's Principle by getting in and out of the electric bath very quickly.
 * Sun 25th:
-** Laundry in the morning
+** John is ill and stays in bed.
+** Laundry in the morning.
+** John breakfasts alone at Mister Donut again and feels a bit better.
 ** Wander around the temple in Asakusa. Lmm buys a suitcase.
-** Head out to the suburbs for Mike's ''cafe''. It turns out to require tickets.
+** Head out to the suburbs for Mike's ''café''. It turns out to require advance tickets.
-** Eat okonomiyaki at a place that actually uses the hot plate
+** Eat okonomiyaki at a place that actually uses the hot plate.  Phil and John accidentally order chicken gristle.
-** Harajuku. Walk around the park a bit, and the fancy shops.
+** Harajuku. Walk around the park a bit, and the fancy shops. Both turn out to be largely devoid of cosplayers, but there are one or two.
-** Lmm and Mike head back to Akihabara. Mike insists Lmm direct him where to buy his porn. Lmm runs away as soon as possible, and finds a ''cafe''.
+** Dan sees a costume show in the Evangelion shop.
+** Lmm and Mike head back to Akihabara. Mike insists Lmm direct him where to buy his porn. Lmm runs away as soon as possible, and finds [http://filles.jp/ a ''café''].
+** John goes back to bed, braving a vending machine noodle bar with apparent success.
+** Other people try to see Shinjuku Gyoen, but it is already closed, so we instead see everything from the top of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building tower.
 ** In the evening we meet a girl from Chicago. She and Lmm arrange to go to the fish market.
 * Mon 26th:
 ** Lmm gets up ungodly early. The girl does not. Lmm watches some anime and goes back to sleep.
 ** Some packing and the like in the morning. Decide we want to go to Osaka today, probably on the 15:30 or 16:30 shinkansen.
-** Breakfast in the temple district
+** Turns out the drum museum around the corner is closed, but Emma buys shoes.
-** Did we do anything else in the morning?
+** Wander round the market stalls in the temple district, eating ice-cream and sweet bread.
-** Head back to akihabara for lunch and a little last shopping
+** Breakfast in a street that turns out to be full of cafés.  Dan thanks the food server effusively.
-** Fail to say goodbye properly to Emma
+** Head back to Akihabara for lunch and a little last shopping. Decide to split up this time and everyone has a better time.
-** MELON BREAD
+** Fail to say goodbye properly to Emma.
-** Catch the train to Osaka as planned
+** MELON BREAD, and assorted other deliciousness from the bakery in Akihabara station.
-** Eat at a cafe in Osaka station. Everyone has carbonara. Exciting frozen drinks.
+** Catch the train to Osaka as planned.
+** Eat at a café in Osaka station. Everyone but Dan has carbonara. Exciting frozen drinks.
+** Discover we have 18 beds between the six of us at the Smile Hotel.
 * Tue 27th:
-** Early plane to Yakushima
+** Breakfast at the Smile Hotel.
-** Discover no-one can drive
+** Early plane to Yakushima.
-** Discover no-one has the ryokan's address
+** Discover no-one can drive.
-** Get bus passes, and bus, and eventually get to ryokan
+** Discover no-one has the ryokan's address.
-** Go to Senpiro's waterfall. Walk down the mountain
+** Get bus passes, and bus, and eventually get to ryokan.
-** Onsen
+** Go to Senpiro's waterfall. Some photography. Walk down the mountain talking loudly about twenty questions.
-** Exceedingly traditional japanese dinner at the guesthouse
+** Onsen.
+** Exceedingly traditional Japanese dinner at the ryokan.
 * Wed 28th:
-** Traditional Japanese breakfast at the guesthouse
+** Traditional Japanese breakfast at the ryokan.
-** By bus to the place of trees
+** By bus to Shiragani Unsuikyo.
-** 5 hours of hiking
+** 5 hours of hiking, eating snacks along the way which roughly constitute lunch.
-** Bus back, booking jetfoil on the way
+** Climb a mountain for http://hpmor.com/chapter/81.
-** Dinner at the restaurant opposite the guesthouse
+** Bus back, booking jetfoil on the way. Also a little souvenir shopping just outside Miyanoura.
+** Dinner at the restaurant opposite the ryokan.
 * Thur 29th:
 ** Traditional Japanese breakfast
-** Catch the jetfoil
+** Bus to Miyanoura and catch the jetfoil. A little more souvenir shopping at the ferry terminal.
-** Lunch at the Steak & Hamburg in Kagoshima
+** Lunch at the Steak & Hamburg in Kagoshima.
-** Train it up to Fukuoka
+** Train it up to Fukuoka.
-** Check into hotel, then visit canal city
+** Check into hotel, then visit Canal City.
-** Watch a dude with some impressive diabolo skillz
+** Watch a dude with some impressive diabolo skillz.
-** Watch a japanese schoolgirl acquire chocolate
+** Dan nearly buys a watch.
-** Back to the hotel as the shops shut
+** Everyone else watches a japanese schoolgirl acquire a few dozen bars of chocolate for at least 6000円.
+** Mickey acquires two figurines for 2500円
+** Dinner at our third okonomiyaki place where the hotplate sees extensive use and melon soda is discovered to be better than reports suggested (not hard).
+** Back to the hotel as the shops shut.
 * Fri 30th:
-** Morning shinkansen
+** Morning shinkansen.
-** Gets us to Hiroshima at some point
+** Gets us to Hiroshima at some point.
-** Visit the memorial and museum
+** Visit the memorial and museum.
-** Late lunch in this underground place, with bartering and cocktails
+** John buys a suitcase.
-** Lmm runs off to catch the pretty cure all stars movie
+** Late lunch in this underground place, with bartering (between ourselves) and cocktails. John discovers there may in fact be drinks worth paying money for.
-** Evening karaoke
+** Lmm runs off to catch the pretty cure all stars movie.
-** Fail to find a mahjong club for 3
+** Evening karaoke. Ben orders much sake, which is worth it as it arrives in traditional bottles with the little ceramic cups.
-** A little drinking at a bar. Ben orders much plum wine
+** Dinner is snacks in the karaoke place followed by cakes from the exciting cake shop nearby.
+** Fail to find a mahjong club for 3.
+** A little drinking at a bar. Ben orders much plum wine. John is almost tempted into alcoholism.
 * Sat 31st:
-** Himeji on the way, but only for an hour or so
+** Himeji on the way, but only for an hour or so.
-** Back to the ryokan
+** Back to the ryokan.
-** Dinner in that place on the 4th floor near the ryokan, (with the buzzers)
+** Dinner in that place on the 4th floor near the ryokan, (with the buzzers).
-** Back to Akihabara one last time
+** Back to Akihabara one last time. John succumbs to temptation and joins the figurine crowd.
+** John and Lmm have a protracted and entirely superfluous negotiation over exchange of mass and volume in suitcases.
+** Dan sees Kappabashi Kitchenware Town Street when it is closed.
+** Dan goes on to a ''club'' in Asakusa (in the temple district, near the amusement park).
 * Sun 1st:
-** All but Ben and Lmm fly home in the morning
+** All but Ben and Lmm fly home in the morning.
-** Fertility festival in Kawasaki. It is full of american tourists, and we can't get any lollies
+*** Breakfast in a café in the airport, after a lot of looking for the best option and finding they are all much the same.
+* Fertility festival in Kawasaki. It is full of American tourists, and we can't get any lollies.
 ** Early lunch at a traditional japanese noodle bar. We watch some baseball.
 ** Watch the parade. Haha, penis.
-** Ben heads to book his ferry ticket
+** Ben heads to book his ferry ticket.
-** Lmm makes a brief ticket to Akihabara, locates (but does not enter, as it is not yet open) the infamous LittleBSD cafe, then goes to Shinjuku and watches the Strike Witches movie.
+** Lmm makes a brief ticket to Akihabara, locates (but does not enter, as it is not yet open) the infamous LittleBSD ''café'', then goes to Shinjuku and watches the Strike Witches movie.