Japan [1]
I would have written a Japan [0] post, but I had been up for entirely too long by the time I got to an internet connection. In short, I was on a plane for around 13 hours, then had to take a bus for another 75 minutes, then got in a car that took us to our current location. That was yesterday (Tuesday) for me. It is late Wednesday at the time of me writing this.
We traveled around Tokyo today, to a bunch of different places with names that I cannot remember. For lunch, I had Ramen in Miso Soup with Gyoza and you wouldn’t know it, but you should be jealous. We went to Tokyo Tower and I took some pictures of the city from the “special observatory”, which is 250 meters high. I spent some time in Akihabara and visited an electronics store that was several stories high, and contained more electronic gadgets than I have ever seen under one roof. For instance, I swear that they had every Canon and Nikon camera available on the market today, as well as the entire lens catalog for each brand. They also have PC designs that I have never dreamed of, and more cell phone designs than I have ever seen available in the States.
For dinner, we had Yakiniku. We sat at a table that had two small barbecue pits built into it, and you are given raw meats of your choosing that you then cook at your table with other vegetables, sauces and fixings. At some point today, we also had some Yakitori.
We also visited Kokyo and a couple different shrines.
We will be leaving Tokyo soon and going to different parts of Japan that consist of more grass and trees than concrete and cars. This city is amazingly huge, and I cannot see how anyone would want to travel here without having someone who can guide you around and is fluent in Japanese. I know that I would certainly never travel here unless I had some kind of support system; then again, I’m not as daring as some people. I will be posting some pictures at some point, but for now it is time for me to shower and go to bed.
October 5th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Very cool man, glad to hear you made it there okay and that you are having a good time. I want to see some of the pictures from Tokyo tower. Nice wikipedia linking by the way. Classy.
October 9th, 2007 at 6:55 am
I posted some pictures from the Tokyo tower for you. I have many more to post at the time of this writing, but I’ve got places to go and more pictures to take! I’m also glad you appreciated the wikipedia links, that stuff takes time yo!