Anyway, right now I've been in Japan for a little over a day. I arrived on the plane yesterday at Narita, before taking a bus to Nobu's home in Musashi-Sakai. The flight was long and boring (12 hours) and customs was a pain. It was wonderful to finally make it out of the airport. It's been mid to high 70s here, and sunny. A lot better than Chicago.
After we got to Nobu's house yesterday we moved into the guest room. It's essentially a hotel room: two beds and a bathroom. We ate dinner and then went shopping, I found out I'd forgotten my deodorant (whoops). I passed out on the bed in the guest room after I sat down to see whether or not we had internet.
Today I woke up around 10. I set up Skype (IM or email me for my contact info) so that I could talk to my parents. We ate lunch at a ramen place near nobu's apartment. We had ramen with leeks and egg. It was really good. After that we went out shopping again. I needed a charger for my camera (I forgot a couple things) and body soap. The electronics store was pretty cool. Everything was really expensive though, that was not so cool. I guess this is one of the places that I really notice the difference in cost of living. Software is $80 instead of $50. Everything was generally about 60% more. Although interestingly LAN cables we cheaper. US they tend to average about $1 per cable, they were ~150 yen/meter here. This works out to roughly $.44 per foot. They also sold only flat cat 5/6, which was pretty cool. It was only a couple millimeters thick, with the cables put into a ribbon rather than would into a circle. There's a picture of the shopping street to the left. It was really wierd, like a mall smack dab in the middle of the city. Also interesting, most shops had tiny storefronts, but then went up like 3 or 4 stories.
Overall, everything was really nice. I'm going to bed now, I already dozed off in the middle of this. I need to stop going to sleep by accident.
More Pictures, Nobu and I at the train station.
6 comments:
Great start I'm emailing all the Kleeman's and assorted others.
Cool indeed! Looking forward to your adventure. So, how did you end up in Japan?
Sugar! You made it!
Can't wait to read about your "sweet" times...
Remember, have FUN, be good and be safe (in that order).
I like the "ABC-Mart" ... I guess English letters are cool ever there.
I guess I never explained. I'm in Japan over the summer for school. I'm doing a Japanese language program, and having fun.
Also, English letters are very cool. A lot of things are either in English, spelled phonetically or in roman characters. It's really weird.
Jamie!
Sorry I missed your send off. I have a habit of falling asleep by accident too. It's OK if you aren't moving :-). And contrary to what Icy says...be SAFE and have fun - in that order!!!!
-Auntie M's
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