BEHOLD: Tokyokyokyooo

ようこそ東京へ!

Japan! Here i is. So far it's been great. Done some wandering around, some relaxing, ate some delicious food, enjoyed some great hospitality, and had two old men fall asleep on me on the train. So all in all... pretty standard Japan experience. I really likeit so far... Tokyo is super clean and techie. People have been very friendly and helpful. The train stations here are nuts though. Not quite as simple as Taipei. Right now I am staying in a hostel in Nakano-ku just outside Shinjuku. I have 3 room mates, two Taiwanese girls and one Japanese girl. So the communication jumping from Japanese to Chinese to English has been wearing out my brain, but it's fun. They're all really nice.

Yesterday I spent the day wandering around Yokohama area which was nice and relaxing. Then met up with my friend Rina (from Maui) and her mom Masami for dinner. We also met up with a super cool family from Tokyo and they showed me a great time. We went to a bar in SOGO that had these crazy ninja bartenders. These guys were flinging bottles all over the place and lighting stuff on fire and basically defying gravity WHILE mixing drinks. It was pretty impressive. Today Rina and I met up with some other friends here for breakfast, then wandered around Harajuku and Shibuya (where the crazy sub-culture of youth is) That was some real good people watching. Cool areas. Lots of big fancy stores. Tomorrow we hit up the world famous Tsukiji fish market early. And then.. Krista arrives!! So there will be more to come this week!

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Toayan Airport