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scary bus

28th of Dec, 2002ce* in: diary

Awoke under Kotatsu with my legs thoroughly roasted. Didn’t wake up the other guys around the table as they were probably too drunk to understand where they were anyhow! But I did turn off the Kotatsu so they didn’t roast to death. We snuck out of the front of the house and out on to ‘a road’… right quite lost now, must find the main road, probably the biggest problem in Japan is the way roads are laid out or rather the way they are sign posted.

Finally made it back to Yuki’s house and got cleaned up, fell asleep under another Kotatsu until late into the afternoon then continued on wards back to Tokyo, as our final destination is a town some 8 hours by bus. My girlfriend locked her keys inside her bag somehow, so we had that to contend with - plus the fact that we were lugging 4 huge bags on wheels!

After wisely going to the huge coin lockers in Shinjuku station we could continue our separate paths. Me to buy a nice digital camera for my friend (with my friends money, which I could have used for numerous activities) while my girlfriend went off to collect the tickets for our bus journey. Theres some fucking fantastic cameras about at the moment but all of them were just out of my reach. I did however manage to pick up a Nikon Coolpix 2500 with a 64mb card within my budget (only just), it runs in English and has a real zoom factor of x3 plus a footprint of 2.0 mega pixels… those specs may seem wonderfull but are just a drop in the ocean over here - most new cameras are tiny little toys but take a footprint of 4.0 mega pixels, and have an operating system to rival most PCs!

The bus we travelled on was rather odd. As long as a National Express but instead of the usual 2 seats on each side that don’t recline very much this bus has rows of 3 seats one on each side and one in the middle and they recline fully (to crush the knees of the person behind).

Lights off, front window curtains down, total darkness.