10.28.2008

Day2

Konbonwa mina. Got a keyboard now so will make this longer.
What a day! Haven`t walked that far in a long time.
Spent the day wandering Tokyo. Many very cool things to see.
These Japanese make use of every space extremley well.
Got some shots of a parking solution for Cam`s lowered car. :>

Saw some temples today, one pretty big one between akihabara station and a trucking company.
Looked real old and was almost strangely sheltered from the surrounding city. There was another pretty small one on the ground floor of this 20 storey building. Love the contrasts!
Not sure if I am behind the times or not but saw coke with vitamin c and diet coffee.
Thats right, not decaffe but diet!!? wtf? Also at 711`s you can get 18% alchohol. Something based on plums, right there on the shelf next to the other cool drinks!

Anyhow, lunch was one of those rice triangles in seaweed and a can of mango, mango drink was delicious and the rice triangle had a very unusual flavour in a nutty, pleasnt way.
After this I found like a CBD sized area that appeared entirely devoted to hats and female fashion accesories. That was for you vette :>

Mum, sounds like the place for you would be Ise, met this guy who had been here a few times already researching the Ainu and he was telling me about how the Japanese seem to love Ise, from what he told me it sounds beautifull. After wandering a while longer I found a couple parks and spent some more time in Akihabra. Every goddam shop is multi levels, so over stairs. Looks like I probably wont be buying any electronics cept robots as although they are ahead of us the prices are not that different to Australia/ebay. I will definetly be buying many anime items though, incredible stuff really. After this I got a can of sweet lemon and it was like solo but with pulp, delicious and freaked me out the first sip!

I was planning on going to roppongi for a few drinks tonight but got talking to this guy, much helpfull info on getting around and were to go. He doesn`t speak a word of japanese and has been here 5 times now, each for about two weeks!
Tomorrow I am going try to get to the imperial palace park and Tokyo, Wednesday will probably be boring as I am trying to organise a shinkansen(bullet train) to nikko to see the old castle and so forth there.

Thats it for now, will upload the pics once I can remeber my flikr details, nothing to get excited about yet though as I have just been using my phone.
Oyasumi.

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