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So tomorrow it's Kyoto! And luckily they have a smaller transit system!ok first thing...Londons underground has nothing on Tokyo's transit system. It is insane!!!! I'm shocked and amazed I made it from the airport on 40 minutes of sleep. I did manage to get here however. Now about the bed situation. I find myself paying about 30 dollars for a dorm room in Tokyo, to compair I was paying about 3 dollars for dorm beds in China. So that was a bit of a price difference. And the beds themselves are really more like wooden boxes...or coffins as my fellow hostelers like to call them. They are actually quite spacious but probably not everyones cup of tea. I took pictures so don't worry you all can see what I'm talking about first hand. The first day was definitly overwhelming. I think this is the most culture shoke I have experienced.... They love the technology here, which I knew, but I forgot the part where I would have to actually figure it all out. Everything is mechanised. Drinks, cigarettes, sake and whiskey can be bought on the courner from a vending machine. To get a bowl of donburi I have to first put money into yet another vending machine to get an order slip. Oh and eating here is like a 100 meter sprint. You sit down at a counter filled with busness men wearing suits. ALL of them! And then they comence to eat as fast as humanly possible so they can return to work again.
So I finally figured out the transit system (there is something to be said for the randomly pressing buttons approach) and went out to see some temples and the tokyo tower. All those who understand the anime reference....so Kaitlin, and Leslie...I was sad to say that the world did not end, I was not transported to the world of Rayearth, and there was no awesome fight with the negaverse. Sigh, but the view of Tokyo at night was pretty sweet! My first day here and I managed to see some Geisha's walking down the street (pretty rare trust me) And yesterday happened to be some form of festival day cause all the little kids were dressed up in their traditional kimonos at the temples. REALLY CUTE!
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