Japan: Yeah... yeah... I know... I thought I'd update more often too...
06/17/2006
The Youth Center had some crazy architecture all over the place. Some of it really just didn't make any sense. The first picture is where we had breakfast every day and classes some days where we wouldn't go all the way to TiTech. The restaurant where we had breakfast every day wasn't bad, even if it was pretty much the same stuff every day. The good thing is that it was a buffet! So anyway, like I said before, we were kicked out of rooms to go to another room, a whole 2 days after we got into our rooms. A picture below shows Sara in, what I thought, perfectly illustrates the sheer exhaustion of moving in and out of rooms over and over again, never really getting to unpack our suitcases. The picture below that is some more crazy architecture around the center... They had these stairs that were seperated by walls, for absolutely no reason. Each different staircase had different breaks and ended at different places... Stairs would also be angled for seemingly no reason.
Anyway, people wanted to go check out Akihabara again, and being the geek I am, I didn't mind one bit. Unfortunately, we got seperated somehow and I got abandoned at the Youth Center waiting for everyone else (when they'd already left apparently). I knew where everyone was going, but Akiba is so big and always crowded, that it's hard to find people. So anyway, I went to Akiba and wandered around and of course I found everyone.. ish... We checked out a lot of the stairs and found this really awesome music store that had like 7 floors of instrument goodness. We also checked out the Shosen book tower, which was just that... a book tower. hmmm... actually, that's a good place to remember to go back to so that I can spend all the book cards I've gotten. In any case, a good day of walking, shopping, and eating.
06/18/2006
Today was just another day we went all over Tokyo. I explained a little about Asakusa before. Below is a shot that doesn't really capture the whole essense of how crowded it is there, but I tried. I think the woman sticking her tongue out at the bottom of the picture is awesome too. And of course another Engrish sign found in Asakusa. I did end up buying some souvenirs this time, but I'm still saving most of my souvenir buying for the week or so I'll be in Tokyo before I finally head back to America.
The Youth Center had some crazy architecture all over the place. Some of it really just didn't make any sense. The first picture is where we had breakfast every day and classes some days where we wouldn't go all the way to TiTech. The restaurant where we had breakfast every day wasn't bad, even if it was pretty much the same stuff every day. The good thing is that it was a buffet! So anyway, like I said before, we were kicked out of rooms to go to another room, a whole 2 days after we got into our rooms. A picture below shows Sara in, what I thought, perfectly illustrates the sheer exhaustion of moving in and out of rooms over and over again, never really getting to unpack our suitcases. The picture below that is some more crazy architecture around the center... They had these stairs that were seperated by walls, for absolutely no reason. Each different staircase had different breaks and ended at different places... Stairs would also be angled for seemingly no reason.
Anyway, people wanted to go check out Akihabara again, and being the geek I am, I didn't mind one bit. Unfortunately, we got seperated somehow and I got abandoned at the Youth Center waiting for everyone else (when they'd already left apparently). I knew where everyone was going, but Akiba is so big and always crowded, that it's hard to find people. So anyway, I went to Akiba and wandered around and of course I found everyone.. ish... We checked out a lot of the stairs and found this really awesome music store that had like 7 floors of instrument goodness. We also checked out the Shosen book tower, which was just that... a book tower. hmmm... actually, that's a good place to remember to go back to so that I can spend all the book cards I've gotten. In any case, a good day of walking, shopping, and eating.
06/18/2006
Today was just another day we went all over Tokyo. I explained a little about Asakusa before. Below is a shot that doesn't really capture the whole essense of how crowded it is there, but I tried. I think the woman sticking her tongue out at the bottom of the picture is awesome too. And of course another Engrish sign found in Asakusa. I did end up buying some souvenirs this time, but I'm still saving most of my souvenir buying for the week or so I'll be in Tokyo before I finally head back to America.
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