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Pic­ture: Dis­tant view of Typhoon clouds from Hotel Room

Typhoon num­ber 4 (offi­cial name) hit Okinawa, and skimmed the east­ern shores of Japan. Com­pletely miss­ing Tokyo, but stop­ping many ser­vices for a few minutes on Sunday. We were out in the worst of it in Harajuku on Sat­urday. Wind+Rain = Shop­ping in Japan. Every­one was out and about.

Then on Monday morn­ing at around 10:19am, a mag­nitude 6.8 earth­quake hit to the north of Tokyo. We were in the hotel room at the time, and Avril thought I was being funny rock­ing the bed. I thought she was mud­dling around pack­ing bags. Nope, it was an earth­quake. My greatest fear was that I was only in my jocks. Avril and Liam were con­cerned about our greater wel­fare. Within a minute or two, it was over, and we watched the after­math on TV.

Note: my mum reminded me that this was my second earth­quake. When I was 5, Nowra NSW had an earth­quake. I must admit I don’t remem­ber the earth­quake, but I do remem­ber our cat.

It seemed that Tokyo went onto its main busi­ness: shop­ping. So we joined in the crowds at Akihabara