a little memory.

yey, im in tokyo baby. woopwoop. ah-hmm. bullet trains are fa-ast. dont let anyone tell you otherwise, but as we whirled through the japanese countryside between kyoto and tokyo this morning. out of interest and intrigue the kyo in both of these means capital, but the to is differnt. in the tokyo it means east capital and i cant remember in the kyoto, something equally as fun im sure....back to the story. we had to stop due to the newest typhoon not as big sweeping its way through the mean streets of tokyo. they are not really mean it just sounded better. so we were to wait for 45minutes for the rain to clear enough for us to continue. it was cool though, there were five nozomi bullet trains all lined up. nozomi means hope in japanese by the way, or have i already told you this. we met a girl the other day one of koshos friends girlfriends who was called nozomi, she couldnt speak a word of english but i thought id amaze her with my trivia anyway, she looked blank then giggled with her boyfriend. i thought it was a nice name. this is our train, the nozomi n700. only released earlier this year it has a different shape engine cab to the original nozomi bullet trains. i prefer the originals. check em out on wikipedia if you want to be ultra cool like me. im not ultra cool by the way, that was sarcasm.


anyway, tokyo is massive. huge. bigger than new york, but not as tall. we were up the tallest building already, which was free by the way. not quite the 60dollars or whatever it costs to go up the empire state and i have to say the staff are alot nicer here too. but you dont get to outside and the glass is not non reflective so the photos are not quality. so i took lots to make up. luckily i spent along time last night uploading my stuff to my spanking new externalharddrive so now i can afford the space that all these photos are taking up. here is tokyo from the north tower of the metropitan government buildings. tokyo is officially a metroplois as it is made up of so many differnt cities. not a city itself.


this is the guy that cooked us lunch.


sorry rthe images are so small, the internet connection is taking forever and i dint have the patience to wait the twenty minutes it is taking to upload the big ones. we found a really naff little noodle-esque bar. a kind of quick and plenty of tokyo. in shibuya adn i had meat with my noodles. again no english in the establishment so kosho filled in the gaps for us. we would be utterly lost without that man.
oh yes that reminds me why i started writing this blog, i remembered earlier what i was doing when my back was cooking (my back is much better today thankyou, although still rosy its not nearly as sore and no other side effects) i was writing up my version of our travel story. i only got so far but i photographed the pages and wanted to post them up so as you can read....but the internet is being very temperamental here in the hotel so i will have to leave it before i get upset with it. i shall try again later. after our evening tonight.
catch you laterl.