Tobu
Me and Natalie have had a lovely day so far. We have mooched around Ikebukuro. We started off looking around the Rikkyo University campus. It was a lovely building. It seemed very quiet, but students are probably all home for the summer.
We than found a lovely park to sit in the shade for a bit because the heat was immense. I'll be surprised if I haven't caught any sun yet. We could hear cicidas making lots of buzzing noises.
Cicadas are associated with Japanese summers. These massive thumb-sized insects produce a loud buzzing, droning noise in the morning when it is hot. The hotter the weather the more noise they make. The largest ones live underground for five to seven years, sucking on sap in tree roots with long hollow mouthpieces, and emerge in summer and break free from their last larval shell as adult cicadas. The larval skins can be found around trees. Cicadas spend the hot months of the summer, making noise to attract mates, and mating, and die when the whether gets cold. Just as they signal summers arrival when they appear the signal it's end when they disappear.
(Japan Facts and Details)
We then spent hours in the Tobu Department Store, which is possibly one of the largest department stores in the world. 16 floors crammed with store after store! I've never seen anything like it. So easy to get lost. So easy to spend a fortune.
Me and Natalie are now back at the hotel room waiting to meet up with our tour guide. We're going for a Japanese meal with him this evening.
We than found a lovely park to sit in the shade for a bit because the heat was immense. I'll be surprised if I haven't caught any sun yet. We could hear cicidas making lots of buzzing noises.
Cicadas are associated with Japanese summers. These massive thumb-sized insects produce a loud buzzing, droning noise in the morning when it is hot. The hotter the weather the more noise they make. The largest ones live underground for five to seven years, sucking on sap in tree roots with long hollow mouthpieces, and emerge in summer and break free from their last larval shell as adult cicadas. The larval skins can be found around trees. Cicadas spend the hot months of the summer, making noise to attract mates, and mating, and die when the whether gets cold. Just as they signal summers arrival when they appear the signal it's end when they disappear.
(Japan Facts and Details)
We then spent hours in the Tobu Department Store, which is possibly one of the largest department stores in the world. 16 floors crammed with store after store! I've never seen anything like it. So easy to get lost. So easy to spend a fortune.
Me and Natalie are now back at the hotel room waiting to meet up with our tour guide. We're going for a Japanese meal with him this evening.