Friday, September 8

Archives: Japan, Tokyo

Japan: Tokyo

Sep. 8th, 2006 | 03:26 am

This sucks, I'm typing with a keyboard where the apostophe is Shift + 7, and the spacebar is the same size as a normal letter key. Had trouble logging in cause my username had an underscore in it and it was like finding a needle in a haystack. Go figure.

Anyway as of now, this as of now is gonna have crap punctuation, cause i:m on a timer

Let:s start from the top

Leaving (god damn it can:t even find the damn hyphen) -

buggered off at 7;30 in the morning to head off to the airport
got there and was exhausted
what was waiting for me was the following;
- searching for my partner and checking in (time taken; 40mins)
- my hand luggage getting refused cause my camera was too big, so they gave me a carrier and i repacked (time taken; 20mins)
- requeuing up for check in (time taken; 30mins)
- queuing up for 1st security check (time taken; 50mins)
- finding people again (time taken; 10mins)
- boarding but getting stopped by more security and crap (time taken; 45mins)
- sitting on the plane like an idiot for the duration of the flight cause some dude had the need to turn his light on and off when it was sleeping period (time taken; 11 hours 20mins)
+ additionally, i almost died trying to eat the crap they were feeding us on the plane, and no one sat next to me on either side so i actually had room for once

- arrived in tokyo narita + security + etc + meeting up (time taken: 1 hour 30mins)

we headed off to the youth hostel in iidabashi in a coach, at which point i was about ready to collapse as i was tired by the time i arrived at heathrow and hadn:t actually slept since

guess what, it was 9am in tokyo and we had a full day ahead

check ins at youth hostel, running around, eating a crap lunch, going to akihabara and then collapsing was what followed

youth hostel was pretty nice though, all things considered
i mean, it:s still a youth hostel but hey
food sucks, beds suck but at least theres a really really good view as we:re on the 18th floor

just noticed that i have 4mins left and i:m out of 100 yen coins
curse you, you stupid machine that only takes 100yens

anyway today i went to uh shibuya, shinjuku, some meiji shrine, tokyo city etc
most of which i had to do alone cause my fellow volunteers like lazing around in the youth hostel
surprised i made it back considering how everything is overly complicated and large
oh and shibuya rocks, it:s like walking through up a pinball machine when you:re there at night, cause of all the lights
just minus the pinballs maybe

there was also this awesome traditional bar where it was very ... traditional
dunno how else to describe it but if you watch a lot of anime you:ll prolly know what i mean

weather blows, it:s hot and humid in tokyo like it was in hong kong
it:ll be a lot nicer at my placement apparently, but we:ll see

gah 1 min left, guess i:ll cut it off there for now
leaving for takayama at 8am tomorrow, 5 hour bus for takayama from shinjuku
i:ll see if i can get back on the net at some point

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