Pre-Ops REPORTING!! 16 things about tokyo!

wooo....moshi moshi!!!!!!! i finalLY　found a lan cafe here in kyoto to type all the shit down!!!

japan has been...eye-opening, amazing, awesome, and i can keep going on about it...i want to publish a day by day journal thing but i only have a bout half an hour left, so i think i`ll just tell you guys some awesome things about tokyo....

1. the A380 is DAMN cool...and it`s so stable, even ben would like it (i mean it)

2. the snow period in tokyo is during feb, so sorry guys, i misfed you info about the snow period..HOWEVER!

3. it`s winter here right now, and temperatures are as cold as a wallaby night (like that first day when we were outfield sleeping in tonners or lightstrikes). so technically, it`s not that cold (i think wallaby has trained us well), so 3 layers is enough for me. BUT!

4. you can defintely expect hakuba to be colder, and there`ll be snow there, so don`t worry!

5. for your infomation, the temperature in tokyo now ranges between 5-15 deg celsius now.

6. things here are EX. cds, clothes here in generally are generally more ex. when i get back, i will look thru some of the places again. you can find some good deals in the street shopping areas though, and sometimes books and music stores have a clearing out discount.

7. fyi again, the exhange rate here is 1SGD=58.22 YEN

8. about transport. the subway system is pretty easy to figure out, and tokyolites are generally helpful people so you can always ask them for directions. station to station in tokyo here can cost 160-350 yen, usually my ticket is 210 yen, so ben, mings, i leave you to figure out the cost k!

9. the JR line here is expensive. i just sat on a bullet train from tokyo to kyoto, think it was 13350 yen per pax to get to kyoto..generally the ticket should cost from 10K onwards, so beware, it really is expensive.

10. shinkansen -bullet train- is fun! think ben might get giddy though..we`ll have fun buying bento boxes and eating them on the train!

11. tokyolites: guys and girls here are very nicely dressed, very trendy stuff. younger girls are genreally pretty, and they know how to do themselves up really well. the school girls are really cute :D my hotel was next to a girls school and they were shouting to me from their classroom lollll...

12. tokyolites are very polite people, and helpful as well. just need to understand their language .... there`s the bowing and all that, but i haven`t seen anyone say `itadakimasu` here yet.

13. navigating on the ground is more confusing..don`t really understand the street maps and signs..or maybe i just suck at navigating, i always just go in the genral direction and my parents don`t like that..

14. night life is a bit scary, cuz there are africans on the street in roppongi (the area i stayed in) at night and they keep asking you for money...think if we go hangout at night we`ll do it where there`s more of a local crowd

15. food here is great! needless to say..

Alright, so that`s about it for a quick gloss over on tokyo! when i get back, i`ll post a journal online bout the things i did there..i really love the city, really...it`s like a concrete convoluted jungle here...and when u go out of tokyo, the countryside is awesome..

Jason, you`ve got a cool wishlist there! Maki horikita is like, EVERYWHERE in tokyo...her face on posters in trains, train stations, on the neon signs of shopping centres...i went to a bookstore and saw 5 magazines with her face on the cover for the month of november...haha i`m quite tired of seeing her face alrd..where`s the real thing man!

AND yes, some stores do have an AV section...i walked right into one..it was like selling handheld sextoys like mini dildos you can attach to your phone hahahahah....damn funny..

Oh, if there`s one thing you can do now, pls go read some of the common phrases of japanese language! it`s very useful cuz most japs don`t know how to speak english very well..

that`s all for now! How are you guys doing??

JOSH (finally logged in)