Today was almost entirely spent on trains, travelling the eight and a half hour journey back to Tokyo from Nagasaki. We ate some relatively terrible bento boxes on the way - multiple piles of unflavoured rice with breaded pork fat - and made the somewhat depressing discovery that our next destination is somewhat further away from Japan than we had imagined (around nine hours further, to be precise - tomorrow is also set to be fun).
On the plus side, I had a superb time reading a few short stories by O Henry (one of the few English-language books I could find in Nagasaki) and watching Nicolas Cage and Sam Rockwell (who were so superb together in Matchstick Men) finally reunited in the hit movie G-Force, a film concerning a band of guineapig super-agents and their mole friend, Sparkles.
We have now retired to the Villa Fontaine Hotel Ueno in Tokyo, where we are in the process of doing our laundry and other tiresome things in preparation for visiting a new continent tomorrow.
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