We have joined by Sylvester for a game of Wyrmspan... #boardgame #boardgaming #TableTopGaming #cat #GamingCat

Noodles arrived to congratulate us all #cats

Sorry as per my location that's Leeds, Alabama

From Surrey to Bristol to Leeds in one day, the trains behaved for once 🙏

"a little closer to home" jfc I cannot type it appears

On another adventure today, a look ittle closer to come though!

On my final plane home (with WiFi!) my least favourite bit as it's 14hrs but hoping it'll breeze by 🙏 I just want to be home now with my family and cats and my own fucking bed !!!

The last thing I did in Japan before heading to the airport was visiting the observatory on the 60th level of Sunshine. I went there in 2014 with Dad and I got a bit emotional when I was there. The city was just as beautiful and incredible as it was then.

This morning I did some more shopping (shocking) went to my least fav shop of donki but it's great for getting snack type things for colleagues. I then had lunch at Kura Sushi. I had planned to go to sweets paradise but it was fully booked so we celebrated Soras birthday with sushi and a new outfit!

Starting my final day off work breakfast in the little park next to Sunshine City. We visited here in 2014 and named it cat park after all the cats that lived here. They seem to have all been rescued nowadays. Still a nice park though

When you finally see one of the cats on live view but it keeps failing 😭😭😭 I can't wait to see them in a couple days 💛🙏

I started the day with breakfast at Dennys and then when onto Nippori for Fabric street (with a quick stop at Tabata for Tabatan badges)

I did laundry, visited the onsen and then had a nap. Just got back from dinner and am now in bed with some snacks and the F1

I've now distributed my luggage and had a tidy, truing to figure out if I want to go out for some late lunch or maybe just go to the onsen when it opens in 30 and do some laundry

This morning I went to the Lovelive sega cafe in Akiba. It was....ok. the design was cute as always but I think I've realised they aren't as fun in your own as with friends. Also my sandwich (???) was difficult to eat lmao

Today I visited Numazu for the 4th time, to commemorate the finale live last weekend. Numazu is a town where Love Live Sunshine is set and is a huge part of the story. It's also absolutely beautiful !

Will update properly later but I met a distant relation of Sylvester

Today had some ups and downs but it ended on the biggest high of finally getting to see AKB48 perform at their theatre 🩷 I've been a fan since 2012 and despite my oshis having graduated they've also got a special place in my heart and I'm so so happy to finally get to see them shine in their home

I went to my least favourite places (Shibuya & Shinjuku) for my fav girls (Straylight, Le ssarafim & Kasumin)

Fun fact in 2014 @matakishi.bsky.social & I got to go to Mt Fuji, we stood at this very station to get the Shinkansen back to Tokyo for the first time that day too 💛

Not quite there yet but I booked the seat specifically on the side to view Mt Fuji, it seems to be a bright clear day so hopefully I'll get a good view 🙏

Whenever I visit somewhere new in Japan I try to pick up a sumikko charm related to that place. This is Nagoya's

Naturally got to the station early for some train spotting

To avoid any more issues with the suitcase Im having it couriered to my next hotel, so hopefully this train journey will be much more chill as I move on from Nagoya up to the final stop of my trip Tokyo 💛

Got one last cool shot of it from above 🩵 before spending a very reasonable amount in the shop

After a little scare this morning with something popping in my back I made my way out on today's adventure, with a successful gacha & a Lego friend on the way...

Today was a fairly stressful morning followed by an ultra chill evening to counter it. I ended up missing out on the live I was supposed to go to but I also had loads of sushi so 🤷‍♀️

Made it to shin-kobe for my connection, but not without some drama with my suitcase breaking as I was getting off the train 🙃

Bye bye Hakata, thank you Kyushu ❤️

Sitting in the foot bath was a highlight

So that was insanely cool

Pikmin on the hunt for new flowers

Now just casually on my way to a volcano, Sakurajima!

My ekibento today is a katsu sando and it's so good I could cry

In a shocking turn of events, I am once again on the Shinkansen

I also had a Pikmin Collab eki bento on the train !!

Slightly later than planned train journey I arrived in Nagasaki! Even with the rain the city was beautiful and I'm very glad I went.

Today I woke up a bit under the weather, I was tempted to just stay in bed all day but decided that some drugs and a cold brew would get me through the day. They did and I've just bought some random throat spray from the conbini to help me get through tmr too!

Rounded the day off with day 2 of the live viewing which was soured by my kinda stressful journey getting home, but getting there was nice enough!

And I had lunch at the local cafe that looked out onto the actual tracks

There was also a small train museum by the roundabout!

There's also a really nice breeze out here so I don't feel like I'm melting

I made it! To the Bungomori roundabout! It's where Kanans center song Happy Party Train is set 🩵 it's somewhere I've wanted to come for a long time so I'm glad to have made the effort this trip!

Some shots from yesterday

Yesterday was an odd one but the live viewing really bought it around. Today I'm heading off on my first rail pass adventure for an anime pilgrimage to the middle of no where! It's probably gonna rain but we power through with crocs and a pikmin umbrella 🫡

Today has been a bad brain da however, I managed to grab a last minute ticket to the live viewing of Aqours final live day 1 (and day 2!!) it's about to start so day is looking up 🩵

After a boring evening of laundry I ventured out for a particular dinner only to find the wait 85 mins!! I ended up heading back to the hotel as everything else was busy and I had the non decision brain. On the train back I ordered pizza hut and now I have this amazing pizza

Today's damage....like 2/3 of this photo is for other ppl but still...I will be posting a box back home 😂😂 my suitcase can't handle this

Though so far all I've done is shop and blow my daily budget to shit

Fukuoka is beautiful