originally posted: Thursday, 12 March 2009
Hi all, The trip so far has been good. Japan, of couse is an amazing country with very interesting people. The places are amazing - contrastingly ancient and progressive - and the people have a certain sense of dignified refinedness that demonstrates their strength of will and ethic.
The highlights would have been the Fish Market, Asaksa temples, the
architecture in Haraguru, and the lights of Shinjuku and Shibuya. The only lowlight would have been not getting to see the Imperial Palace - it was closed the first day I went and then the second day I found out you need to apply for a pass, and that the day i had gone all the allocated passes for that day had been given out.
Nonetheless, good times had. Great food, good beers, and good, if somewhat disjointed, conversation. The people I met were so knowledgeable and curious, but I found their heightened sense of self conciousness meant that they rarely appraoched me to strike up a conversation; it nearly always had to be the other
way around.
The scale of the place is mind-blowing. 4-10 storied buildings from central tokyo all the way to Narita airport - a 50 minute express trainride away. Obviously some mammoth buildings in the major hubs as well. But you get to experience things like Shinjuku train station - the busiest in the world. The Tokyo fish market does something like 1 billion yen trade a day.
Anyways, the trip to Thailand was fine and now finding the way around Bangkok. Polls apart from Tokyo obviously.
Hi all, The trip so far has been good. Japan, of couse is an amazing country with very interesting people. The places are amazing - contrastingly ancient and progressive - and the people have a certain sense of dignified refinedness that demonstrates their strength of will and ethic.
The highlights would have been the Fish Market, Asaksa temples, the
architecture in Haraguru, and the lights of Shinjuku and Shibuya. The only lowlight would have been not getting to see the Imperial Palace - it was closed the first day I went and then the second day I found out you need to apply for a pass, and that the day i had gone all the allocated passes for that day had been given out.Nonetheless, good times had. Great food, good beers, and good, if somewhat disjointed, conversation. The people I met were so knowledgeable and curious, but I found their heightened sense of self conciousness meant that they rarely appraoched me to strike up a conversation; it nearly always had to be the other
way around.The scale of the place is mind-blowing. 4-10 storied buildings from central tokyo all the way to Narita airport - a 50 minute express trainride away. Obviously some mammoth buildings in the major hubs as well. But you get to experience things like Shinjuku train station - the busiest in the world. The Tokyo fish market does something like 1 billion yen trade a day.
Anyways, the trip to Thailand was fine and now finding the way around Bangkok. Polls apart from Tokyo obviously.
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