Tokyo Prince Hotel Minato

Senyores y senyoras, Ya estamos en minoria!!!!! Apabullante, todo sea dicho. Ya hemos llegado al pais de los ojos rasgados, de la tecnologia desbordante, de los fluorescentes, de las reverencias, de los letreros incomprensibles y del pescado crudo. Y del silencio, por lo menos cuando esta gente esta en sociedad, pues son casi imperceptibles. No hablan, susurran. En el avion, de gran mayoria japonesa, parecia que volvieramos de un funeral. Ni las dos ninyas sentadas detras de ...

Unlike New York, Tokyo isn't really a city of interesting architecture. That said, I find it endlessly fascinating to explore its streets, to see it at different times of day. While a few buildings stand out, everything is mostly shades of grey, blocky and dull; what interests me is the small things, the proportions and the arrangements that are just different enough from what I was used to back home to make me look twice. Also, unlike in Manhattan, there is no ...

... for help. For the record my Japanese is okay, but only to the survival scale. I wouldn't be able to give a lecture or hold a great conversation. For the day, our friend Kadota-san provided a driver for us, his name was Kato-san. We decided to go to a few places in Tokyo which would be harder to get to by train. After all, he said we could go anywhere we wanted. Our first stop was the Kappabashi district of Tokyo. Here there is a legend and appreciation of a creature with ...

... From Nara we hot footed it to Nagoya for our flight out to Vietnam............. lololol our first time dipping our feet into non-familiar waters, Japan is Asian yet familiar... Vietnam shall surely be a leap into the unknown.... as a matter of fact I am writing this from Hanoi right now, I've gotta run out to buy a little bag before the shops close... all I gotta do is make it through traffic here which is no small feat... I will explain more in the Vietnam recap.... Outro!

... l`ora d ammogliarsi con un italjin. Io vivevo tutto questo come un sogno, come fossi nella testa di un altro, come fosse una piece di teatro. A tutti dicevo: si, voglio trasferirmi in Giappone, perche` voglio conoscer la cultura, la lingua etc etc . Dovevo dire questo perche` altrimenti era tutto inutile, nessuno si sarebbe dato la pena di cercare le soluzioni per fare un visto di lavoro a qualcuno che vuole restare qui solo sei mesi o meno. In francese dicono ``jouer de ...

... down through hundreds of machines, but I hadn't imagined just how assaulting on the ears it would be. It was like a massive pokie room with the electronic game sounds turned up to the 'eardrum-piercing' setting, accompanied with a constant crashing sound of the ball bearings. After a couple of minutes our curiosity was satisfied and we got out of there. That night, after Grant arrived, we went out to dinner near Ginza. Being the eve of ...

... the night since we need to pass through it on our way to Kyoto. Bryan kindly offered his house again to allow us to ****, shower, and shave and we could not refuse. Noriko cooked up a gourmet three-course dinner for the four of us and we will sleep on Bryan's futon. It is a very much appreciated night of luxury. Tomorrow, we are off for Kyoto and then further south...