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I guess the first day night was a success because I am here at my youth hostel, able to tell about it.
The flights were uneventful overall, when I boarded the flight to Tokyo from my stopover in Detroit, we sat on the plane for a while while maintenance walked around checking things. The plane was hit by lightening earlier that day, they just wanted to make sure everything was okay- very considerate of them.
From landing, my mission was simple: get to youth hostel.
I had to take one train (Keisi Line from Narita to Aoto) and transfer to another to get to Asakusa, where the youth hostel is a 'short' walk away. Short, that is, assuming you have the map that you printed out before you left home and you didnt forget it on the printer.
Long story short(er)- wrong train- twice- only to find out that both times I had been right, just the train map I was following wasn't detailed enough. Then I wondered around Asakusa partially looking for the youth hostel and really trying to get it into my head that Im in real japan and not Little-Tokyo in new york city. seriously- its not as easy as it sounds, its hard to grasp that im on the island of japan across the world from america.
After going the wrong way for a while- I asked some random hotel clerk who, when I ask him to show me on my map where I am, points a few inches off the side of the book. Walking all the way back to an intersection where I made a wrong turn- wandered around more- finally just went up to a random guy on the street and said '"english?" and he said "guest house?"and i said yes. and he showed me there nearest one was= which was owned by the same company as the one I was looking for, and they gave me directions here.
Thats all for now, going to go to sleep and get up early for the Fish Market tomorrow
sayonara (goodbye)
~mark
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Jenny Csatari
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wow
You're going to a Japanese fish market? I'm so jealous! Please,please,PLEASE take photos! Especially the giant tunafish and the bidders. have fun! :D