วันศุกร์ที่ 10 กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. 2555

A Poor Madman In Tokyo!

Its on the pail list but not at the top, when they said they needed to make an extra stop, you twisted their arm and managed to schedule a long layover between La, Honolulu and Bangkok, so the challenge is you only have 36 hours between flights and this includes sleeping, eating and getting to and from Narita airport, which I might add is 2 hours each way. Oh and lest I forget, no funds and severely jetlagged because you had too much fun in La and Hawaii.

So I didn't do a geisha show, and I missed the zoo and I didn't do the kabuki theater either. What I did do was a stand up noodles cafeteria in Ikebukuro, a quick stray through the imperial gardens, wandered nearby the Ginza, saw the Tokyo central train hub and stopped at Wendy's for a triple, but no fries or drink as I am a diet.

Tokyo is not a cheap place, hotels, even the cheapest reduction hotels start at , so doing Tokyo fast and cheap requires that you be creative, one way to control your costs are the capsule hotels where you can get a long tube big adequate to slip into with a Tv, radio, air con and alarm clock all built in, these start nearby a night. an additional one option is not to get any room at all and sleep in a lazy boy at the capsule hotels, which before you laugh de facto have some cool amenities like large screen Lcd Tv's hot tubs, Jacuzzis and sauna's. Some might say hey hot tubs are Jacuzzis, alas in any place but Japan this would be true, however the Japanese have made taking a hot soak into a minor art form that you would be remiss to miss, especially if like this madman you do Tokyo in the middle of January in tropical Hawaiian Aloha attire.

Stand up noodles in Japan are like our hot dog stands in the good old Usa. You stand up to eat at a counter head down reading the daily bird cage liner. The only art or decorations they have are pictures of the menu items ordinarily faded and fuzzy from years of hanging there, just like home. They will have 20 or so items with different types of meat and other ingredients, some you might know, others you just have to guess. You can be brave and order, or be patient and stand next to the window where they put the bowls out and use my patented sniff and point method that I learned from my popular four legged organic alarm system, Moocher the Schnauzer. If it looks de facto good or you want them to add extra just wag your tongue and foam at the mouth a little, the cooks will understand the nuance. There was something in there that I am still trying to outline out, whatever it was it tasted great, I presuppose some rare dark crunchy genetically engineered fungus that they cultivate in the subway.

I looked in the Ginza area for a second gorging of stand up noodles and there were a incorporate stands, but they were more upscale and looked too clean and pricey for my discerning "kind-of-sewer" palate, and then I saw the Wendy's. After that triple I de facto wasn't seeing very hard any more. What I did see was lots of luxury shops and bars and even more bars gift all sorts of carnal delights that I would love to tell you all about but it would need to be in a an additional one forum. Being a poor American and holding Us dollars the though of shopping was horrifying, so much so that in a moment of panic I super glued my reputation cards together so that they could be read but not swiped; which saved me I'm sure from time to come bankruptcy pains. Now I have to outline out how to undo the super glue but the strategy did work.

When I first went past the palace a miniature before the dawns early light the guards were not seeing all that cordial towards me and they all were seeing at me! I was holding half a eye out for flashing steel with the belief of a katana blade going through me like fresh sashimi at Benihana's, but when I came back later when the sun had de facto cleared the weighty palace walls, they were so kind that they let me in for free, which noteworthy my funds just fine. I noticed others as well as myself transfixed staring at a bunch of rocks and trees, at first I belief it was the jet lag, but surmised that they have something extra here, which for the price is worth checking out.

I ended my trip the way it began in the Tokyo subways. The Tokyo Subways like all things else in Japan are fast, sufficient and in Japanese! Contrary to popular folklore the shoehorn was invented here for loading passengers in rush hours, no need to hold on as the crowd will do it for you. The cars are de facto clean and quite nice with velour seats in hideous fashionable color patters that the locals seem to favor. Comfortably they read out the stations as you go along in English, but unless you are 7 feet tall and have your ear up to the speaker in the ceiling you will not here them. A good tip for the subway is to take a picture with your digital camera and ensue along that way, as the only way to read the hub signs is to stand up for the whole trip, which if you had the poor madman kind of day and a half that I had you might be a miniature tired, and just want to sit in a stupor daydreaming about seeing Elvis impersonating Jack Nicholson in Bangkok on Suhkumvitt Soi 5 in a few hours.

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