It’s 10 months since I’ve been in Japan and I’m only here for a week. It’s actually been rather nice, almost like a holiday. The best thing has been cramming in as much gorgeous Japanese food as I can. There are so many great things to eat here from ramen to unagi, bibimba and all the sushi which you can’t get at all overseas (they may call it sushi, but it isn’t).

Smoking in restaurants is something that freaked me out (you won’t find that in Europe anymore), Osaka drove me mad with the bland greyness of the architecture, and having to fill out a million and one forms by hand to renew my driving license were the bad things, but most other things were pretty cool. The inaka and Shikoku are cool places, full of greenery and wide roads (a shock after India and Italy) and things are really cheap here. I also got to spend a day checking out new synths and video cameras, which was great.

And in between sorting things out for summer I even got a little work done.

Now I’m sat on the overnight ferry from my island back to the mainland to fly back to Europe tomorrow. So I wouldn’t expect any coherent email replies for the next few days!