Tokyo is fantastic! It`s not like anywhere else on the planet - a metropolis of crazyness (and for those of you who have seen Graham`s latest facebook update I need say no more!) Our night out with 4ｘ Japanese businessmen was one of the highlights - not a lot of Japanese/English chat was understood by both parties but it`s amazing how a few beers, taking your shirt off (Graham & Co for those of you who haven`t seen the facebook photo!), a rendition of "Will Ye Go Lassie Go" and some arm wrestling can keep you out until 3.00 in the morning!!
We also met a 60 year old French ex-pat who spent 3 hours showing us around `Electric City` - Electric City being where all the gadgets are sold - needless to say Graham thought he had died and gone to nerdy heaven!!...... I believe we are going back.........there`s also another `nerdy` past time here - going to bars where girls are dressed up as animation characters.....weird!!
And, we went on to a Shrine Festival, which was basically a fairground with some folk dressed in kimonos but where the stalls were pretty unusual and the `Freak Show` (I kid you not!) was kind of different:- a guy with a pole through his face, one with a chain up his nose and out his mouth, a `vertically challenged person` with naff magic tricks and a lady who chewed a dead snake.......what else is there to say....
But don`t worry, we`ve also been doing loads of the usual touristy things:- eating sushi, climbing towers, wandering around the red light district, window shopping in the thousands of posh department stores and taking in the stunning view at Tokyo Bay and Rainbow Bridge - but to be honest it`s difficult to convey what Tokyo is like - except that it is like looking into the future as everything seems so advanced, hi-tech and utopian.
It`s also massive (I revise my previous assessment as apparently it`s 9 cities joined together), very very tiring as even the underground stations are enormous and you have to walk for ages, spotlessly clean (no smoking & walking on the streets!) and pretty expensive (we have been staying at youth hostels and eating at the equivalent of Scotmid - thankfully their take out food is much better!!) - BUT if we win the lottery anytime in the future we are coming back here to live it up in style!
Tokyo has been one of the highlights so far and we have extended our stay so we can go back for a few more days.....is that "Flower of Scotland" I can hear?????....
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