THE FOOD

Delicious! The tour included three meals a day, so it felt like we were constantly eating. Dinner time seemed to come early each night – perhaps the tour guide wanted to be rid of us early – and it constantly felt like we hadn’t yet digested lunch. We ate mainly traditional Japanese meals with numerous little dishes and table-top pots over a flame. We were surprised to get to the last day and we hadn’t yet eaten any sushi (Sushi tends to predominate in Japanese food in Australia). With the amount of food we ate I would have expected to stack on a few kilos, but we both actually weighed less when we arrived home.