As we left the roykan yesterday our host said "ah-Expo! - walk walk walk, queue queue queue, hot hot hot" so we were well prepared for what lay ahead. The Expo seems to have really captured the imagination of the Japanese and a quarter of a million of them visit the site each day. That is quite a crowd, but as we have come to expect, the hi-tech transport system set up to cope with them is remarkably effective. We used trains, a maglev monorail, and a gondola to get around and the huge site which is very impressive. The queues for the most popular pavilions were obscene - up to two hours or more - but we scooted around the more obscure areas (Chad, Qatar, Lithuania, etc - and also the UK pavilion which people were avoiding for some reason) without queuing at all.