Underwater Japanese tour

Published: Aug 16, 2026
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I was in Japan for pretty much a single day, we’d flown in and gone to a large building for some reason and my ex girlfiend had managed to trade her wrist watch with one of ’the twins’ from high school.

The watch she’d traded had an expandable screen so she’d started watching videos on it, before the other twin scoffed and told her she was going to be blind by the time we got back on the plane.

My ex had also forgotten to un-pair her phone before making the trade so all her private data was still on there and she was getting notifications through for the twin.

After this watch affair, we entered a cable car that headed down the hillside. While we were going downhill I repeatedly asked, pointing at small hills in the distance “Is this mount Fuji? How about this, is this mount Fuji?” to nobodys’ amusement.

At the bottom of the hill, the cable continued underwater and we continued our journey about 5 metres underwater, still in the cable car.

During this underwater section there were a couple replica creatures from power rangers with reverse engineered mocap shown on screens in the cable car.

At the end of the cable car ride, we disembarked and met a weeby British Royal Navy guy called Ross who was energetically speaking Japanese, making a lot of hand gestures while holding a bodyboard.

After speaking, he left theatrically and the Japanese people in the cable car politely applauded him.

After this, there was then a completely silent recreation of a supposedly famous power rangers fight featuring people in floppy fabric suits that everyone took extremely seriously; but had me in stitches and I had to keep myself from laughing while the earlier Japanese people glared at me.

After this we met my friend who lives there who was driving us through town back to the airport. His car had a kind of notification system that took up the majority of the windscreen with a flying postage letter animation and jingle every time you went through a certain type of junction while describing the buildings and the town we were driving through.