Well, I arrived in Japan. Flew in to Osaka, then took a train out directly to Tokyo. Coming from China to Korea to Japan gave me a progression of cleanliness, and all the stigmas that people told me about Japan were pretty true. Expensive, politeness, cleanliness, technologically advanced-ness (in some aspects). However, I was expecting more robots up in this place.
In terms of politeness, I’ve never had so many people say “excuse me” and “sorry” in such a short amount of time. This place was so polite that I was starting to get nervous in the way I presented myself because I didn’t want to offend anyone. I caught myself bowing on multiple occasions, but when in Rome…
Besides that, Tokyo is definitely a cool city, and their excellent metro system made it super easy for me to get around.
Saw a few of these in the city. Great restaurant I heard.
I went to a popular donkatsu place, Tonti, and you can watch them make it in these huge vats. There were also a lot of grandpa’s working at the place, and it made it that much better.
At the Tsukiji fish market, you can head over there around 5 in the morning to see the Tuna auction, but it was too early for me. I still checked it out because you can eat really really really fresh sushi for breakfast, and check out the market. Those are some big crabs.
I couldn’t believe that there was a place that just sold tamago. Tamago’s the last thing I want to spend money on when I eat sushi, BUT, they were giving out samples and it was not the tamago I was used to in the states. This tamago was dang delicious. The store had purpose.
Fresh sushi from the fish market.
I also made a visit to the Studio Ghibli Museum. Studio Ghibli is Hayao Miyazaki’s studio, and is like the Disney of Japan. The place was interesting, but took some work in actually getting tickets. I knew you had to buy tickets in advance, but since they didn’t have a place for me in China, I had to ask my dad to buy them for me in the States then mail them over to Beijing to take with me to Japan. Thanks pops. If you’re a Miyazaki fan, you should recognize this guy. I didn’t because I have only seen about four of his films.
Harajuku (there’s a girl looking at me in the picture). I wish I saw more cosplay people.
They put a whole cheesecake in this crepe. Of course I ate it, and it was amazing.
At the crazy intersection they always show on TV when talking about Tokyo. It’s in Shibuya where they had a store called the Loft that sold everything from travel gear to art supplies. It was amazing, and I picked up some awesome ear cleaners.
