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Going Japanese
... plan was to then go to Harajuku but as id spent up till 6pm in the east of Tokyo and was knackered I decided to blow that off till tomorrow and not go to Kyoto. Ill leave that for my return hopefully next year.
I got back to my hotel to find posters in the lift of what to do in the event of an earthquake if you are stuck in the lift. Apparently you press all the buttons on the elevator and hope it stops so you can get out and calmly without rushing and exit ...
I love Tokyo
... each other). Based on that information it
switches the lights. Which means that in the night you can drive
without having to stop, if there's only one car on another side of
the crossroad it will switch his light only for a short time. I
didn't know this system is so unique, but I must say it is pretty
awesome in terms of saving energy for the traffic.
And I also
appeared in the newspaper :-) jeeeeej!
Let's continue with the
Tokyo story ...
Museum time - Ueno and the crazy world of Roppongi
... really hungry, luckily now i'm getting to a stage where i'm ignoring the language barrier entirely, no one cares after all, they'll accomodate you regardless - so if the pictures look good then I just go in anyway :).
Near my hostel there was a place which looked like it sold Okonimiyaki (or Japanese Pancakes) - I thought awesome, I want to try those - it turned out though the place was actually Korean lol - the food was nice all the same whatever it was ...
Ueno Park & the Tokyo National Museum
... to find that WE, instead, were the attraction on this busy corner, as
we were approached by a charming elderly Japanese gentleman who requested to take our picture, indicating his infatuation with my blonde hair and blue eyes. In retrospect, I guess I really did stand out amidst the sea of homogeneous Japanese....and when I did start to pay attention, I realized that, surprisingly indeed, I ...