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Drifting to Tokyo
May. 17th, 2009 04:21 pmToday's dinner report comes to you from a sketchy Indian restaurant in Akihabara, Tokyo's "Electric City" famous for electronics and geeks. So much shiny stuff! So much anime! I'm having troupe figuring out which stores to go in since the anime/manga places and the porn places look much the same. The last store I went in was selling blow-up dolls, which the signs were eager to point out were equipped with both breasts and a "danger hole.". WTF?
My favorite part of Tokyo so far has just been people-watching. In Kyoto people looked mostly like people in any city, albeit with a much higher proportion of school uniforms and kimonos. Here, they look like Tokyoites: women in outrageous goth loli, boys with absurdly carefully styled hair. It's fun just to watch.
I got very lost today, for the first time on this trip. I reserved my hostel online using my iPod, and kept the webpage with directions open. But when I got to the right neighborhood and pulled the webpage up, it tried to refresh and failed because I didn't have a net connection. No address! No map! I knew approximately where it was, but kept circling the area to no avail. Luckily Tokyo has police kiosks all over the place so eventually a policeman helped me find it. But it was irritating to lose a full hour of my 24 hours in Tokyo! On the bright side my neighborhood, Asakusa, is the center of the huge festival going on right now, so at least I got to see lots of the festivities as I circled the area!
I can't close without a shout out to my friends who are graduating today. Go, Leland! Go, Ryan!
My favorite part of Tokyo so far has just been people-watching. In Kyoto people looked mostly like people in any city, albeit with a much higher proportion of school uniforms and kimonos. Here, they look like Tokyoites: women in outrageous goth loli, boys with absurdly carefully styled hair. It's fun just to watch.
I got very lost today, for the first time on this trip. I reserved my hostel online using my iPod, and kept the webpage with directions open. But when I got to the right neighborhood and pulled the webpage up, it tried to refresh and failed because I didn't have a net connection. No address! No map! I knew approximately where it was, but kept circling the area to no avail. Luckily Tokyo has police kiosks all over the place so eventually a policeman helped me find it. But it was irritating to lose a full hour of my 24 hours in Tokyo! On the bright side my neighborhood, Asakusa, is the center of the huge festival going on right now, so at least I got to see lots of the festivities as I circled the area!
I can't close without a shout out to my friends who are graduating today. Go, Leland! Go, Ryan!
