Sunday, 16 April 2006

Today Megan, Nick and I went to Tokyo to look at new laptops. We caught the train down which took a little over an hour and a half. We went to Electric Town and prowled around the computer stores for a bit and then we went to a huge bookshop that had an ok English language section. I got a little excited and spent the equivalent of about $230. The good news is that the bookshop can post you stuff (free of charge) that you’ve bought so my new books will arrive on Tuesday – hooray!

Megan and Nick on the train.

Luv Machines - not what you might think.

After the bookshop we walked to Tokyo’s tallest building and went up to the observatory. And it’s pretty damn high. And Tokyo is pretty immense. It’s hard to express how fecking big it is – but you pretty much can’t see the end of it. Unfortunately the weather was pretty crappy so we couldn’t see Mt Fuji from the observatory.

Where Mt Fuji should be (it's probably still there to be honest).

We had lunch at an English-style pub (except they showed you to your table and then bought you drinks – so essentially it was just the décor that was English-style) and caught that Shinkensen home (which is the bullet train). It costs twice as much as the regular train but gets you there in half the time. And I got to pat a little Dachshund-in-a-bag at the ticket office.