First off, apoligies if this post is all over the place，I can't get used to this crazy Japanese keyboard in the youth hostel. And secondly, apologies but no photos this update. The computer is being a little bitch. Ｓｅｅ， Ｉ ｂｅｔ you wish you:d bought me that laptop now, stingy parents.
The 11 hour air Japan flight over was... interesting. Nothing has quite sunk in yet so aｔ the moment everything feels a bit like a weird simulation or a dream or I've actually died and gone to live out my afterlife on the moon. On one side of me I had a chubby man playing Phoenix Wright on the DS for most of the flight, and on the other girl wearing a man's shirt backwards as a dress who didn't bring anything to do so sat and watched me butcher the hiragana alphabet on my wipeclean board.
Weirdest thing I saw on the plane? A guy on the plane with both a SARS style face mask and one of those eye masks to help you sleep. He looked like part of a weird sensory deprivation experiment.
Japan is very quiet. It's strange.
I thought of getting off at one of the more rural stops on the train in. It looked nice.
Anyway, I didn't, and I'm glad because Asakusa is really beautiful. It's one of the oldest districts of Tokyo, or at least one that's bothered to preserve the architecture. The streets are completely silent apart from the terrible keyboard music drifting out of Kobe Fried Chicken and the rain. It was disgustingly hot when I got off the plane, but the rains have cleared it all away. After check in and a shower, I went and wandered around for a bit.
At the Japanese version of 7/11 you can buy about 40 different variety of pot noodle, but no apples. As I said, the streets are deathly silent save for the few homeless men peeing up against parking meters, but if you dare to walk into a pachinko parlour it:s like being slapped round the head with a cymbal every 3 seconds. I tried to win a rubber leek out of an arcade machine but failed because rubber leeks are badly balanced :(
There are a lot of French people in the hostel and they cant decide what language to speak so it:s coming out as Francaningrish.
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Hahahaha Mate!
ReplyDeleteSounds like your having a great time already!
The area sounds lovely. I have images of you walking around the shop, popping open ramen and sniffing it, like the woman in the grudge.
... ok, don't go into any spooky houses! Or watch any videotapes that aren't yours. Or lose your eye sight then accept a cornea transplant. OR buy a spooky old camera. Or answer your phone if it isn't your ringtone.
Then you won't have japanese ghosts haunting you :D
ttfn!
xxx
Garry
It's funny you mentioned The Grudge, because I remembered that yesterday when buying noodles and then had trouble sleeping :(
ReplyDeleteI went to the temple today and bought a red tag thing to stop ghosts eating my faaaaaaaceeee
:O:O:O
ReplyDeleteI WANT A RED TAG THING!!!
Is it just like a red piece of paper?
Whats the tempe like?
I can't believe you are in Japan, Im so jealous!!!!!