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Crowds
Tokyo, Japan
March 24, 2001
Japan Trip, 3/24
Kyoto-Tokyo. Shinkansen.
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| Wedding Guests at
Meiji Jinja.
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All out of reserved seats, so took a jiyuseki. In the Tokyo station,
put the larger sack into a coin locker. Took a long time to get out
of the station [because it was a huge complex and
was confusing which way took to which exit].
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| Getting Ready for the
Wedding Pictures.
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Took a subway to Rokubongi. Nothing interesting there [I think because it was during the day and I wasn't
with someone who knew the area].
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| Fixing Up for the
Pictures.
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A bit of walking and a subway took me to Yoyogi. At Meiji jingu, saw
a group of people taking wedding pictures and an unknown procession
[of people with traditional costumes].
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| Another
Procession.
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Yoyogi was a bit disappointing. They banned punk bands inside the
park [there were a few just outside, but not too
interesting], so there were only "normal" people. The park was
fairly big, but it wasn't green enough.
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| Yoyogi Park.
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| Pedestrians at
Ginza.
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Came down a very crowded street [in front of
Yoyogi] and took a subway to Ginza [which had
some streets blocked off so the pedestrians could roam
everywhere]. I thought the specialty of Tokyo is "crowd". Went
to the Sony building. Saw GT3, but PS2's aliasing is quite
disturbing. Clie was interesting, but will wait for Samsung's Palm
phone [which I have right now]. BTW, a lot of
handphones have color screens with about 7~8 lines of Japanese texts
[and most of them were of "stick" types, thin, but
long].
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| A Small Police Booth,
Where a Boy Was Looking for His Mom.
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Had some time, so went to Akihabara. Subways are definitely confusing
with different operating companies, but still managed around. Since I
didn't have any particular thing to buy, it wasn't too exciting [and I didn't really know the good places].
Besides I was getting really tired.
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| Shops Along the Path
Toward Senso-ji.
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Came back to the Tokyo station to pick up the bag. Took a subway to
Asakusa. Asked a bit around to find Ryokan Shigetsu. It's a fairly
modern hotel [with a restaurant on the ground
floor]. They only had a western-style room [very small].
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| Lanterns at
Senso-ji.
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Went out to get some stuff, but instead went into Asakusa-dera and
took some pictures [the corridors of shops leading
to the temple were very interesting]. Went out [of the shop corridors] to still get some snacks,
but found a Starbucks again. Combini ni ite chokoreto wo katta. On
the way back, noticed that, at a small "Chinese" snack shop, they were
selling "BiBimPa"! Strange. [It took me a while
to recognize what it was because the spelling was a bit different from
the actual Korean word.]
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| A Huge Lantern
(?).
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Things noticed [on the subway ads, mostly].
Ewan McGregor sells Aeon, an English language school. Brat Pitt sells
Edwin (isn't it a Korean brand?). Yo-Yo Ma sells Royal Whiskey.
Tiger sells canned coffee drinks (Wanda).
[On TV shows] They display the sponsors' names
in the middle of the shows, kind of interrupting them. Also, they
change to commercials [rather] abruptly just
before the important scenes (i.e., neither sound cues nor pauses).
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| My Room at Ryokan
Shigetsu.
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| Tiny
Bathroom.
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>> "Dewa Mata"...
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