So what is Tokyo really like? Its like Blade Runner. Exactly like it. Only people yell at you when you go into a noodle shop. And they have jellyfish with ultraviolet lights illuminating their tanks. And instead of flying cars, they have cars which get shuffled about in vertical car storage areas by large hydraulic […]

Top Tip: Stay at work. Send email from there. That way, someone pays you to do it, and the internet access is free. You don`t tend to appreciate this until you have to pay 15 quid to say hello to a few folk. I need a holiday.

Tokyo is the only place I have ever been where if you stand still looking at a map for more than 30 seconds, someone will come up and try to help you. And not ask you to look at their art exhibition / topless bar / puppies in the woods. People are so polite here.