May 30, 2018

Tokyo, Japan

Well it has been a wonderful tour of Japan so far. We're all having a great time: getting to sing in some stunning Japanese concert halls with appreciative audiences and their sweet, double-hand mini-waving as we walk off stage; absorbing the local culture and idiosyncrasies from city to city as we dot around on the impeccably smooth and punctual nozomi shinkansen (bullet train); and trying not to overeat every day from the plethora of delicious food (and its plastic model counterparts) wherever you look.I'm rather enjoying doing a little more announcing in the concerts than normal, including the final, "off-the-cuff" announcements which take place during our final group of close-harmony numbers at the end of the concerts. All in Japanese of course! It's great to have a number of friends and family from all over my life attending each concert too, whom I keep noticing at random points during songs; quite entertaining for me, and also touching. I'm so grateful and happy that TKS has enabled me to visit Japan every couple of years for work.I need to find me some delicious uni (sea urchin) and nattō (fermented soy bean) at some point before we head on to Taiwan on Monday morning... Our free day tomorrow might just have to be the day!Oyasuminasai 🙇