Luckily we were on the same JR Line Train as Peter Fincke (Voice Talent), the JR Line English voice-over dude. If you catch a train in Japan, it's likely the dude speaking English is Peter, otherwise it will be Amy his friend at work. Peter dropped what he was doing at 11PM and took us all the way to Shin-Osaka, which should be renamed Shi*-Ooooosaka. Without him we'd still be walking in circles (thankyou!).
Don't go there.
Things got better from here, after leaving our shi* hotal at Shi*-Ooooosaka I unfolded my knees to the anatomically correct position, and we headed out for Himeji Castle, again meeting an lonely old man who directed us there. The only English he could speak was "yes", "no" and "Lovely". So we called himi Mr. Lovely - and he was.
Here is Mr. Lovely outside the Castle.
And the here is Mr. Lovely with Lu.
And finally, here is Mr. Lovely to joining in the fun, my arm was not long enough to get us all in - but you get the idea.
Despite Mr. Lovely continually wanting to go to the toilet or eat, we did not let him. The lack of shared language made things confusing at times, although I did understand his tuneful humming. Unfortunately Lu does not speak "humming", got confused by a hand signal and ran away as she "thought he said a certain area was men only". It wasn't, it was just a cafe - I enjoyed this.Mr. Lovely stayed with us the whole time - and Mr. Lovely made sure we got our Offical Himeji stamp. ... And even though we only visited one Castle, he let us stamp all 3!
Here is a sample =)
Later that day we headed out to Kyoto, missed the rapid service and stopped at every station along the way... I miss Mr. Lovely and Oooo-saka
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