It is nighttime here in Tokyo and most of you aren’t even awake to start the day I am just ending. We are staying at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, which is truly a sublime hotel. Ultra-modern, sleek, tasteful, and very very luxurious. I’m getting quite spoiled here, which is a pity, because this is my last night here for a week or so. I’ve had a lot of fun, though I find Tokyo itself overwhelming — it is like a cross between Las Vegas and a metropolis-sized arcade game–and I’m not much for noise and crowds. The up-side is it is very clean, the people are unfailingly polite, and there are just enough shrines and parks to bring beauty and life to the otherwise unremitting modernity.
The train system in Japan is fantastic. Yes, it can be quite crowded, but the trains are clean and people are so polite. Though some of the manga the men look at while commuting is pretty…colourful. Hentai manga. I’ve enjoyed being flirtatious. I even unintentionally got my lover and me invited to a birthday party for a business man who seemed rather important based on the deference he received. We tried to back out but they insisted. It was fun.
Yesterday we got massages with some extras. Wow. I finally found a woman with hands as good as mine. Not only did she work out every knot in my body (especially my calves, which are not used to all this walking) but she made me cum! A delicious full body massage followed by a clitoral and G-spot massage. It took every ounce of will-power I had not to squirt 
Mmmmm.
I am off to Kyoto next, to stay in a highly recommended ryokan hotel. Ryokans are quaint and traditional travellers inns sort of like B&Bs here. For $700 per person per day we get a room, plus breakfast and a kaiseki feast. I hear ours is quite good, but I’ll still be sleeping on a fouton and walking around in slippers instead of heels (heels on tatami mats=blasphemy+tragedy).
What I really wanted to write about was that today was the Hana Matsuri, the Flower Festival in honor of Buddha’s Birthday. Although it is not a national holiday that people have off of work, it seemed like at some point today everyone in Tokyo was at a shrine. Every Buddhist shrine participates, and the flowers and the arrangement of the flowers is something to behold. One of my hobbies is flower photography and I took over 2 Gigs of photos today. I’ll try posting some to my blog when I get back home. Everywhere I looked, each flower was artfully and deliberately arranged. I am truly stunned by the scope and beauty of the festival and the peace and serenity encompassing the participants. One interesting thing I saw was people pouring ama-cha (some sort of tea) on small Buddha statues decorated with flowers. Sort of like they were bathing a newborn baby. It was very interesting to observe.
And hey, my strokers and sissies out there! I haven’t forgotten you. Stick to your assignments and email me your progress reports. Don’t make me take out my paddle 
