Tokyo: Shop till you drop! - Part 1

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To prevent us from forgetting even the most subtle differences, Ilona and I drew up lists of the things that struck us most in Tokyo.


List of cool things

* Cool dress styles everywhere and people really take the effort to look nice ( you even come across traditional dress sometimes)

* No ring tones or people on the phone in public

* Amazing architecture

* Very polite and shy people (sometimes so much so, that they ignore you when you ask them something, this should then be classified
as UNcool)

* Pachinka (illegal slot machines in halls where the noise ruins your hearing ability)

* Cool toilets

* Everything is really clean

* Shops and restaurants on every possible floor of buildings or in underground corridors without end

* Strange, techie gadgets and geeks in Akihabara, the electronics and manga district

* Love hotels (you pay for a rest (read: to do whatever you need to do for 2 hours) or a stay (the whole night), and coffin hotels (you
sleep as if you were in the mortuary)

* Sales tactics are crazy

* No wind (so no hair blowing onto your lip gloss)

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