ANA is a great airline if you like cute japanese stewardesses.

Well, it:s been quite a trip so far. I planned to write more than I am actually doing but that’s because the internet in the hotel is quite frankly just too expensive. Im now sitting in a manga / internet cafe in some sort of little booth made for people half my size.

Let me regail you with some of the details of how I got to Tokyo and what a strange and above all interesting trip its been. Youll have to excuse the missing punctuation; Japanese keyboards suck donkey balls.

I left the UK on the 28th and arrived in Amsterdam after a relatively painless Easyjet flight. After spending a day with my mother and sister me and sis got up on the 1st to get to the airport. But then disaster struck: SNOW EVERYWHERE! Our plane was delayed by more than 1.5 hours. We were of course worried that we missed our connecting British Airways flight to Tokyo and if that`d cost us more but British Airways managed to get us on a quiet ANA flight out which left 7 hours later than expected. After having seen all of Heathrow airport we could ever want we were on the flight to Tokyo Narita airport!  The Japanese stewardesses were very surprised at my knowledge of Japanese and my like of green tea.

When we arrived we took the Airport Limousine (read: bus) to Tokyo station and checked into the hotel.

The next day we were out bright and early – or well, i was bright.. my sister thought it was too early. We took the subway to Roppongi for breakfast and had a little course at Harbs, an expensive chocolate cake restaurant. From there we went to the Mori Arts centre where there was an exhibition on Medicine which spanned from east to west. We saw a geriatric superman and afterwards had a good laugh about the displays which contained things like Darwin`s walking stick and Abraham Lincoln`s false teeth.

After Roppongi we went to Shinjuku, where we found a great Udon noodle place and had a drink at the Irish Pub – I really needed a proper beer and it had begun to snow. After that we went back to the hotel and went to bed around midnight local time.

Well, peeps.. that`s a small curtailed description of my first day. As soon as I have some time I`ll put my travel logs for that day online and type a bit more about the differences between today`s Japan and the Japan of yesteryear.

Wish me luck! Ganbatte ne!

sn0r.