Blogs from Tokyo, Japan, Asia - page 245

Arriving in Japan is a bit like returning home having forgotten how to speak and not only become illiterate but completely dyslexic too. Relatively few people speak English, most menus are in japanese - even the prices, outside large cities most ATMs dont take take foreign cards and tourists are a bit of an oddity, most signs are of no use to us and we cant read the maps anyway ( which incidentally have no North is up convention either ). Still, we quite like the place and are getting along just fine. Our first task was to buy some more clothes as our swimshorts and T-shirts did not quite cut it in the northern hemisphere. Besides that, we wandered round a few bits of the surprisingly low-rise city, saw a couple of temples, ordered random ... read more

Bonjour la meute, Tout va toujours bien ici, sauf pour ces deux points la; -non toujours pas de job -non toujours pas de photos sur le blog Mais le truc est que j'ai une carte de 512 mb maintenant... alors je dois la remplir avant de faire un CD a un centre de photos et pouvoir la mettre sur l'ordi puis sur le web... compliqué hein, pas vraiment, mais je dois prendre des photos first. Mais quand j'en aurais j'en spammerais sur le blog et il y'en aura partout partout. Outre ça, je cherche des jobs sur le net, je me promène et explore Tokyo, ce soir 2 des 3 mongoliennes viennent a Tokyo. Une d'elle c'est fracturé l'avant-bras en faisant du snow, et elle a été expulsée de Manza pcq elle ne pouvait plus vraiment ... read more

The subway/train system here is one of the largest in the world. Rush hour is horrendous in Tokyo. The trains are packed to the brim where you literally cannot move a muscle, cause you are squished amongst other commuters. Also there are staff that are on the platform making sure everyone is pushed onto the trains and no one is half in and half out (if that makes sense). When you are on the train 75% of the commuters are either sleeping (even standing up) or texting on their cells. Your cell has to be turned off when on the train and you cannot talk on it. If you do, be prepared to get some dirty looks. Most people take their train rides seriously, as believe it or not that is their only down and/or quiet ... read more

Bonjour a tous, Je suis maintenant chez Jean-Francois, pas loin de Shinjuku a Tokyo (Itabashi). Il est vraiment chouette, et sa coloc australienne aussi, je n'ai tout de fois pas vu son autre coloc, une japonaise avec qui il ne s'entend pas tres bien supposement... mais bon, je crois que les prochaines semaines vont etre plutot bien. En passant, j'ai aujourd'hui acheter une nouvelle carte memoire pour mon appareil photo, 512 mb, je peux maintenant prendre plus de 450 photos sur ma carte, muhahaha. Ils avaient aussi un 4 Go.. il vendait ca 880$ un peu fou. j'ai passer la journee a me promener seul a Shinjuku, un des quartiers les plus fou de Tokyo. Ya des magasins, des lumieres et des gens partoutttt. Pour ce soir, je vais aller me coucher, demain j'essairais d'aller prendre ... read more

Tokyo - Written Saturday evening, after 7pm Japan time, en route to Bangkok We’re back in the air, Japan behind us and Bangkok, Thailand in our immediate future. The six hour flight barely registers as an annoyance with our memory fresh with the thirteen hour trip from Chicago to Tokyo. We opted to pay about eighty dollars extra for the extra five inches of space that United adds to “economy plus” seating (that’s economy plus Roger’s knees, which we elected not to leave in Japan). We will prepare another entry collecting our various general impressions of Japan and the people we encountered. Here please find a sampling of our four nights and five days in Tokyo. March 7 After another delightful ride on the bullet train we found ourselves at Tokyo Station, one of the city’s ... read more