The famous Ginza Crossing, Tokyo
We arrived in Narita Airport at 7am, knackered after the overnight flight. Bags collected, we caught the next train towards Tokyo only to hit rush hour at the first stop. Tokyo is the most densely populated city on Earth so navigation through this unfamiliar subway network in rush hour was an ordeal.
We eventually found our hostel accommodation which was basically 7 floors of rooms, each separated into 28 tiny bed cubicles. We found it a bit odd at first but the cubicles were actually quite a nice way to sleep.
Our cubicle accomodation!
By chance, 2 mates of Rhys and Chuck were also in Tokyo so we all headed off to check out Ginza, a world famous shopping district of Tokyo. The place was crowded with impeccably dressed Japanese women.
Dave and his Tokyo facemask on the Metro
Even after only one day here we have found a lot of things are really strange to us. For example, we all noticed a huge amount of people wearing facemasks around the city especially on the Metro. We have no idea what they are for as the pollution isn't too bad and Dave was getting worried these people knew something we didn't so in the fear of catching some form of virus he wasn't taking any chances and bought himself one!
That night, we went for a sushi dinner. After, Rhys and Chuck headed out for a sake drenched night out in Roppongi with their mates from Sydney while Dave and Finto decided to do an all nighter, wrapping up a lot of missed blogs before heading to the famous Tsukiji fish markets at 5am the following morning.
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1 comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7X9MQi7uOU lads can 1 of you please do this in tokyo-hachiko crossing!!!!!!!!!!!with some gay cheesey music!!! hit link, smythy
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