We're almost in Osaka --sailing there as we speak. We arrive there around 6:30 PM tonight. We also encountered one of the high tech pottys yesterday in Tokyo. It certainly was a vast improvement over the one we had to use in Russia. It was simply a hole in the ground (really!!!!) surrounded by a rickety wooden lean-to. So now we've gone from the riduculous to the sublime on this trip in terms of toilets. :eek: