Saturday 29 - Sendai to Tokyo for the last 3 days

Well I didn't have a good nights sleep and now I'm hungry so basically I'm ready to go.

I think this hotel room was one that I would rather forget. It was hot and we couldn't open a window and even though we had the air conditioning on 17c it was so stuffy it just wasn't nice.

So we left early and had breakfast over at the station.

We then caught the Loop bus that travels around a set route and you can get off whenever you want to. This time (we travelled on it yesterday as well) we wanted to go and see the mausaulum (I'll spell that correctly later) of Date ..... When we arrived I thought to myself bugger that is a steep climb up the road and it certainly was. Then when we got to the top we were faced with about another 1000 steps and then I was really buggered but it was worth the effort to get there. He was clearly was an amazing man, but being born into the the right family I think helps he couldn't have done what he did if he had been born a peasant!

After this visit we went back to the station had lunch in a nice little cafe and then caught the shincansen back to Tokyo. It was a most enjoyable trip.

When we got to Ueno station Alan gave the taxi driver the directions to our hotel and we were here by about 5.00 pm only problem was (if you could call it a problem) was the fact that our room was very small and we had no where to put our luggage so we decided to upgrade to a bigger room for the following two nights.
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