By midday we finally arrived in Osaka where it was grey and rainy. The city was much busier than anywhere else we'd been so far and thousands of brightly coloured umbrellas crowded the streets.

Though we were sleeping in separate capsules, Tom and I managed to wake up at exactly the same time this morning and headed out to catch the Shinkansen to Nara. We treated ourselves to matcha lattes and sticky buns to eat on the train.