Tokyo Japan

Long time no see guys. To be honest my life has been rather dull lately, spring break consisted of mostly soccer, eating, and studying Japanese, so there really hasn't been much to talk about. But, for the next couple of weeks or so, I am going to be on the road, so there should be plenty to talk about.

First up, Tokyo Japan. This city is stupid. The density, is stupid. It feels like one city block of Tokyo has the same amount of people living in it as the entire campus of Ohio State. There are people everywhere, doing their thing, going from A to B, and this city is huge.

So I flew down Friday morning with my friend Kenji. He actually just graduated from Hokkaido University, and is moving here to work in a venture capital firm, so I helped him move and unpack and set up his new apartment, which is pretty nice I would say. After we finally got everything set up we went to a restaurant, don't remember the name, but it was supposedly famous around honshu, aka the main island of Japan. It was pretty western style, which made me happy because I was really feeling some man food, and I was pretty satisfied with the meal.

While we were eating, we had some good entertainment too. There was this pack of kids, Kenji said they had just graduated from 9th grade and were going to be high schoolers next year (only 3 years of hs in Japan btw). Anyway, it's illegal to smoke under the age of 18 in Japan, and they were being pretty roudy and stuff and going in and out of the store a lot, and then these 3 guys showed up in suits and stuff, and started giving them a hard time. Apparently these 3 guys were police, and they thought these kids had been smoking, the conversation and seeing this kid's faces was pretty funny to be honest...silly kids.

Anyway, after that me and Kenji just went splorin (exploring) a little bit around the area where he was going to be living for an undetermined period of time, and we ended up getting to tokaidou road, which back in the good old days, was the only road between Tokyo (at that time Edo) and Kyoto. These days the road is a huge highway with stores and stuff all along the sides and stuff, but it was pretty cool to walk along the same road that thousands of samurai traveled throughout Japan's history. I wanted a Katana...

So in the morning, I packed up my stuff and me and Kenji made our way into Tokyo. I was on my way to meet my girlfriend at Narita airport, and I think he was going to run some errands and just play around a bit, so we parted ways in Tokyo station, and i was left to fend for myself, and somehow make it to Narita airport. The train system in Japan is...well it's set up somewhat logical, and I knew exactly what lines to get on and such, but honestly I was pretty scared that I would end up in some backwater part of Tokyo. But, I made it to the airport, and I met Kay, and everything went rather smoothly to be honest.

More to come later.