Japan 04 - Wonderings
Japan 04 - Wondering.
Ok, well its been three weeks, I’m well into the swing of things here. So. In no particular order.
This is Toyko from a tall building in Ripongi Hills with Mt Fuji in the background. This is like the 5th tallest building in the country, or something. It’s a crap photo cause I took it with my phone… stupidly it didn’t occur to me to take a camera
Me and some friends actually went there to see this awesome modern art museam. Mori, or something.
A typhoon ate my umbrella!. (ella, ella, eww)
Yes… well I lost my umbrella as you know… and I stole a new one… and then a typhoon came a long and ate that one, so I had to steal another one. On the clubbing scene, this is a strangely acceptable behavior. My umbrella basked is a slut… its seen many umbrellas in the last few weeks. Don’t you judge me!.
In Japan, nobody litters, (yet there are not bins?) but umbrella graveyards such as this one appeared everywhere. I think everyone must throw a broken umbrella onto the street at least once in their lives. It’s a special experience…. (you get wet).
mmm… Thorpedo juice. In ranging sizes too! It tastes a bit bleh.
I found this at a station. It seemed necessary to share.
And this is how you do your laundry in Japan.
Actually I can read pretty much all of that… but I was in a hurry and this was quicker.
Ninja restaurant!
Its pretty cool. Everything is supper expensive and fancy here. I.e.: cakes in the shape of bonsai trees. Soup cooked with hot rocks. And it comes with a magic show!
Ice Bar. Tokyo.
Cause you have to try all the novelties at least once. Was… ok.
After this we went to this awesome club called club Air in shibuya-ku.
Its like this really full on night club in the middle of quiet and sleepy down town suburbia. When you walk out of the place you are confronted with about 20 officers with politely susshing you to be quite and leave the area in an orderly fashion. And everyone does it so, its actually really quiet. Only in Japan.
Joypolis. Indoor virtual theme park.
Its pretty damn cool, but you have to pick your rides carefully.
The one (above) is really cool. Its virtual skate boarding. You stand on this platform and it rocks left and right and spins around and you have to tilt the floor board to get points.
However, we went into this one ride which was a room full of kids pressing touch screens to feed virtual fish.
Oh and these this really cool shoot-em-ups like in the arcades, except you sit in the chair that spins around and positions you at different angles of two different screens.
Tokyo fire drill. Comes with smoke inhalation tents and fire hose practice with model fire for you to shoot at
Ok, but this is the best part of the last couple of weeks. I met this dude in some crappy club and managed to get myself invited to BBQ in a park in the Tokyo outskirts.
This was a really strange environment. Kicking around the place there are apparently quite a few events like this. Its like a psudo-international party. Most of the people there were Japanese, but almost all of them spoke English. It seemed that most of the people there were either born overseas, spent some years abroad, or at least studied more advanced English than high school. A really great afternoon. Surreal even. Made a few cool friends.
Anyway, that’ll do for now. I’m so tired. Work is heavy, and parties (and the girls) are pretty crazy. Honestly, I haven’t been taking that many photos lately. Just been trying to soak it all in.
Till next time!
Ok, well its been three weeks, I’m well into the swing of things here. So. In no particular order.
This is Toyko from a tall building in Ripongi Hills with Mt Fuji in the background. This is like the 5th tallest building in the country, or something. It’s a crap photo cause I took it with my phone… stupidly it didn’t occur to me to take a camera
Me and some friends actually went there to see this awesome modern art museam. Mori, or something.
A typhoon ate my umbrella!. (ella, ella, eww)
Yes… well I lost my umbrella as you know… and I stole a new one… and then a typhoon came a long and ate that one, so I had to steal another one. On the clubbing scene, this is a strangely acceptable behavior. My umbrella basked is a slut… its seen many umbrellas in the last few weeks. Don’t you judge me!.
In Japan, nobody litters, (yet there are not bins?) but umbrella graveyards such as this one appeared everywhere. I think everyone must throw a broken umbrella onto the street at least once in their lives. It’s a special experience…. (you get wet).
mmm… Thorpedo juice. In ranging sizes too! It tastes a bit bleh.
I found this at a station. It seemed necessary to share.
And this is how you do your laundry in Japan.
Actually I can read pretty much all of that… but I was in a hurry and this was quicker.
Ninja restaurant!
Its pretty cool. Everything is supper expensive and fancy here. I.e.: cakes in the shape of bonsai trees. Soup cooked with hot rocks. And it comes with a magic show!
Ice Bar. Tokyo.
Cause you have to try all the novelties at least once. Was… ok.
After this we went to this awesome club called club Air in shibuya-ku.
Its like this really full on night club in the middle of quiet and sleepy down town suburbia. When you walk out of the place you are confronted with about 20 officers with politely susshing you to be quite and leave the area in an orderly fashion. And everyone does it so, its actually really quiet. Only in Japan.
Joypolis. Indoor virtual theme park.
Its pretty damn cool, but you have to pick your rides carefully.
The one (above) is really cool. Its virtual skate boarding. You stand on this platform and it rocks left and right and spins around and you have to tilt the floor board to get points.
However, we went into this one ride which was a room full of kids pressing touch screens to feed virtual fish.
Oh and these this really cool shoot-em-ups like in the arcades, except you sit in the chair that spins around and positions you at different angles of two different screens.
Tokyo fire drill. Comes with smoke inhalation tents and fire hose practice with model fire for you to shoot at
Ok, but this is the best part of the last couple of weeks. I met this dude in some crappy club and managed to get myself invited to BBQ in a park in the Tokyo outskirts.
This was a really strange environment. Kicking around the place there are apparently quite a few events like this. Its like a psudo-international party. Most of the people there were Japanese, but almost all of them spoke English. It seemed that most of the people there were either born overseas, spent some years abroad, or at least studied more advanced English than high school. A really great afternoon. Surreal even. Made a few cool friends.
Anyway, that’ll do for now. I’m so tired. Work is heavy, and parties (and the girls) are pretty crazy. Honestly, I haven’t been taking that many photos lately. Just been trying to soak it all in.
Till next time!