View of the Imperial Palace from Tokyo City View

If you look in the big green area you can sort of see the castle, but not particularly well.


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Blog: Classes and Sensory Overload
Date: May 30th 2006

--- Written Tuesday Evening, May 30th 2006 ---

Classes

Yesterday morning we started our three weeks of classes. We ended up on the 7:41 train to Ookayama after quite a bit of pressing from the Powers That Be, so we ended up at Tokodai (Tokyo Tech = Tokyo Koga Daigaku) well before the 8:30 start time for classes. We started with Japanese Language. The teacher (M ... read more







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