Date: August 11, 2009 - Tuesday
Time: 6:08AM
Couldn't sleep. Originally was gonna wake up at 7AM, but the jetlag got us and ended up waking up (HOT!! as well) at 4:30AM.
Around 5 something an EARTHQUAKE hit... didn't even react cuz we thought it was strong wind or the garbage trucks we saw outside haha. The quakes here feel diff than at home. It sways side to side while home is all over.
Anyways, since we're awake so early, we're going to TRY to get ready and head out. Todays itinerary is Shibuya and Harajuku area. Wonder how that's going to pan out. There's rain, humid temps and the possible quake aftermath. Hope things go well... no problems especially with the railways today. Gotta find Mitsukoshi station. Says it's a 5 minute walk from here, but let's see which direction! Our internet doesn't work, or we weren't provided any. We know there is tho. The wireless says there's one on our floor... but how to log in.
Last night we had a problem at The FAMILYMART conbini. The girl asked us something and we were like ..... what? She said nevermind (in Japanese) and continued on haha.
Semi problem using the train station after we got off of the Narita Express. Didn't know we could transfer and but didn't know how to get to the other side. But looking how the trains work remind me of Bart and Muni so it wasn't too bad. It was only one stop with no problems after.
Finding the hotel was a problem though. Even though the directions said to exit at #6, it never said which direction to go to for the hotel. Looked at the street names and easily found it in one of the "alleys."
A man helped me with my luggage up the stairs at the exit since there's no elevators or escalators. My limited Japanense was with a "iie, ii desu" he helped anyways and then i gave the simple "arigatou gozaimasu" Haha. so SIMPLE! my skills suck... i wonder what the barrier will be like today.
I'm waiting to shower next. The bathroom is hella small, but whatever. Our room turned out to be bigger than I expected and paid for haha. Not like the picture at least. There's actually space to walk around!
Anyways.. gotta get ready to head out. Shower and yeah... maybe I shoulda showered first since my hair is gonna take the longest to dry. Well i'm off for now.
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Picspam:
*our hotel room, the blue thing on the bed are yukata robes
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Notes:
The earthquake hit Shizuoka (if i remember) with a maginitude of 6.0+. There was also a previous earthquake that had hit Japan the Sunday we left to head there. Throughout the week we were there, all we saw on the news was coverage about the earthquake (and that Noriko Sakai scandal haha)
It seems that the person who gave us the hotel room switched our room with the people who were next door to us (HAHA Sorry Linah XD)
