Since it was launched in November 2023, the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 has been a hard product to find. It's rave reviews have meant that when it comes into stock, it quickly sells out.

A year ago I was planning to buy the Pocket 2 but hearing that the camera only has a 1/1.7" sensor I decided against it as my GoPro9 only has a 23.6 Megapixel (MP) sensor, so it's rubbish in low light. But hold the front page, DJI released the Pocket 3 saying it has a 1" sensor. Wow! Now we're talking.

Having recently landed in Tokyo, I'm on a mission to pick up this mighty little vlogging camera that will hopefully raise my game. Ha!
I'm heading to BIC CAMERA in Shinjuku. Travelling on the Metro Subway System in Tokyo takes getting used to. Buying tickets for starters. I’ve travelled a lot, visited almost 50 countries, mainly in Europe and Asia, so it doesn’t feel that much of a culture shock travelling in a new Asian country nowadays, but it's still a little chaotic.

On my first trip in 2007, Chiho my Japanese flatmate who I’d lived with in London softened my arrival in Japan by meeting me at the airport with her father and took me back to their house just outside Tokyo.

I also need to buy a new Sim Card which can also be purchased at BIC CAMERA. Sims are more expensive in Japan than other Asian countries.

I’ve always had an interest in Japan. In my late teens and twenties I was really into music, listening to punk, new wave and mod bands. Popular subcultures were a big thing in the 70’s and 80s and I dressed accordingly, kept in touch with my favourite groups and musicians by reading the New Musical Express and Sounds weekly music newspapers, plus The Face AND SMASH HITS magazines. Fashion styles were constantly changing.

Groups were now creating music videos which were showcased on the the MTV channel. The Face magazine would publish a lot of Japanese influences. David Bowie, my idol was big in Japan. One of my favourite new wave groups were called Japan. Be Bop Deluxe another one of my favourite groups also had a song called er you guessed it……. Japan.

So Japan was very much on my radar. But also very out of my reach as it was considered a very expensive country to visit. Unlike India which was the first southeast Asian country I visited in 1987. So I bought The Lonely Planet guide to Japan which I placed on my bookshelf and left it there gathering dust for 2 decades.

In 2007 I was living in London. I’d been working in a library for 6 years. Both my parents had recently died and I came into some inheritance. Over the past 30 years the yen has fluctuated between 120 260 yen to the British pound. During summer 2007 it was hovering around 240. The highest it had been against the £ for almost 10 years. So this was the time for me to go and I made plans to stop work, give up my flat and travel to Japan for the first time. I arrived on New Year’s Eve, not realising just how cold Tokyo gets during winter. I hate the cold, so this was a bit of a schoolboy error on my part.

But I rented an apartment and stayed in Tokyo for 5 months at the start of 2008 before travelling to other neighbouring Asian countries. Over the years I’ve yearned to return to experience Japan during the summer. But I can’t believe It’s taken me 16 years to go back there. Having gone to the Beijing Olympics in China in 2008, I proposed that I’d return to Japan in 2020 to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics. But covid scuppered those plans. The Olympics was put back a year to 2021, but sadly no spectators were allowed.

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