Picking up on Gareth's comment about the food, I think I'll explain this one. Having been awake for approx. 32 hours straight, we had dinner at the hotel which was a traditional Japanese meal, fantastic sushi complete with the all the ceremony and swagger that would put the Queens guards to shame. There was one dish however that seemed to stump all of us. I consider myself fairly open to trying new things and so we did, raw "fireflys" which turned out to be baby raw squid, rare nude clams, complete with eyeballs, fresh tuna with an extremely fine layer of fat - all of its was tried without a thought. When it came to dessert however, the appeareance of a transparent jelly filled with crunchy vegetables (such as turnips and sweet corn), swimming in a sea of condensed milk and garnished with a peeled sweet tomato, completely threw me. Take a look at the attached pic and decide for yourself.
Our first day however was an eyeopener. A taxi that went straight from the airport into the heart of Tokyo without stopping (approx. 45 minutes), metro's that are spotless, people that are endlessly polite, a city without the manic restless energy of say New York, but one I bet that hides a rude fun side. It is indeed the city of Lost in Translation. The sumo wrestling was a curious event, the main thing that stood out for me was the inclusion of non Japanese wrestlers - many more than I would have expected. That and the hard to comprehend truth of a sport that is over in less than 10 seconds. Bring on the manual ad servers, to me that was the main event.
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