Day 45 - Departure from Japan

Well, today was my last day in Tokyo. And what a day it was!
Joe left early morning because his flight was at 11am (he has to return to London before flying back out to Dubai, gutted!)
I rushed around all day to get some last minute bibs and bobs, popped back to Asakusa, Akihabara, Shibuya before returning to Iriya to pick up my luggage and heading back to Tokyo station to get the train bound for Narita airport.
I said bye to everyone at the hostel (Toco Tokyo). I was upset to say bye because they were all really really really nice!!!
As I glared out the window as the train darted through cities, I was really upset to leave. 5 days, as I suspected, is certainly not enough.
As I also suspected, the media has completely exaggerated the entire situation regarding Fukushima. Yes, there is still radiation in the affected areas, but Tokyo is not affected at all. There are no warnings, no less people, nothing.
Nevertheless, I will return one day and stay for a lot longer, and maybe venture outside of Tokyo. I've learnt quite a bit of Japanese since I've been here and can now hold simple conversations and make orders for food and drink, yay!

Quite frankly, travelling, if anything else, has made me realise what a shithole London really is... How disorganised and horrible everything is. Australia did a lot better than London at pretty much everything, and Tokyo was no different.
ALL trains I used (subway, overground, etc) were a MINIMUM of 15 cars (as opposed to our petty 8), AND they were bigger too. (Standard trains have 2 sets of doors on each side, these have 4 sets of doors on each side) Some coaches are even double decker.
Don't get me wrong, part of me will always love London. You can't beat London for clothing and a few other things, but on the whole, we're really behind.

I got on my flight smoothly, and slept pretty much through the whole flight. I'm just waiting for my transfer to Dubai airport now, and then it's time for fun!

It's 19 degrees celcius by the way. Cold for UAE, no? I didn't tell you it was 3am at the moment though, did I? 19 degrees celcius at 3am... Tomorrow is going to be fun.