As of right this moment, I am sitting in this really teenie weenie tiny hotel room in central Tokyo (which, by the way, costs more per night than at the Pyramid Towers Hotel), writing this miserable blog and pushing almost 40 hours without any real sleep or rest.
Flew here from KLIA at 11:30pm last night, and I swear, the Malaysian Airlines air stewardesses were totally bent on not letting me get any sleep. They kept waking me up every two hours or so, to offer me a sandwich, or coffee or breakfast.
They actually served me breakfast at about 5am!
Touched down at Narita airport at 7:30am local time, waited one hour to go through Immigration, and immediately proceeded to take the airport limousine bus to Tokyo city, and continued on to take another 45-minute train ride to Chiba for my meeting.
Talk about mental and physical exhaustion and fatigue!
Best thing is: I have to wake up tomorrow morning at 6am to walk to the train station and take the 7:30am train back to Narita airport to catch my 10:30am flight home.
Anyways, Tokyo is quite nice, really. Food is good, people are super polite, and weather is quite nice (as compared to KL).
Only let-down is: there are none of those uber-sexy, red-hot Japanese girls in mini cosplay uniforms that are bursting the seams around the chest area, that I was secretly hoping to see flooding the streets of Japan.
No…hang on…I think I may have come across one or two…but that was it.
Just like my experience in Korea, the streets are just filled with your average and plain looking Japanese. By now, I strongly and firmly believe that we should ban all those Japanese anime and manga that give healthy young hot-blooded males with hyper-imaginary minds (like me…) such a Utopian imaginary perception of Japan.
Oh yeah…and Japanese porn too.
No…hang on…that’s already been banned…oh well…
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You should hang out more around the odd corners of Akihabara and Shinjuku in Tokyo and Namba in Osaka
Interesting that you should bring that up, Ron.
I was actually in Akihabara for a short while, when my Japanese host and I were scouting for dinner. (We found a small shop that serves excellent yakitori, but I can’t seem to remember the name…)
No chance to smell around due to my tight schedule, maybe next trip. I might be going to Osaka within the next month or two.
Cheers!
xoxo
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