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sarahatessushi

Konnichi wa, Tokyo!

Jun 06, 2006 20:31

Went up to Tokyo last Saturday with Jo and Tonya, for lots of Tokyo-fun, Tokyo-food, and Tokyo-shopping. T and J have a conference this week for returning JETs, in Shinjuku, and so were going to have to go to Tokyo for that anyway. But, going on Saturday meant more fun, conference free Tokyo-time for them, and I just went because, hey, it’s TOKYO! ( Read more... )

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anonymous June 7 2006, 05:16:16 UTC

My personal hell would be Clarendon (one-way streets, little to no free parking, difficult to get to from Maryland), but instead of nice places like Iota, it would be filled with Arby's and Quizno's. I SHUDDER TO THINK OF IT.

sarahatessushi June 8 2006, 00:41:12 UTC

Ooh, my blood just ran cold in my veins. You have a sick, sick mind, my friend.

anonymous June 8 2006, 11:36:45 UTC

I like Arbys, Quiznos, and Clarendon :(

Two additional notes:
1- The only way you could staff a place like that Arabian Nights deal in the US would be with drama club jerkos, because no real person would be willing to walk around telling patrons to yell "fire" at their food to make it more delicious.
2- I can confirm (and I'm sure that Elisha and Sarah will back me up on this) that Shinjuku station is indeed the most confusing place in the entire world, and cannot be navigated without a cursory knowledge of Japanese and/or a willingness to stand in one place and look confused for a long enough time that someone will come up to you and try to speak english to you, which will work out better in the long run because their english will be better than your japanese because japanese is fucking hard.
There i said it.

-Jeremy

anonymous June 8 2006, 11:39:03 UTC

oh yeah, and did you do Ziggy Stardust? If not, you did not truly do karaoke

sarahatessushi June 8 2006, 11:43:44 UTC

Sadly, Ziggy Stardust did not get sung, but I did sing it the karaoke session before this one. Sometimes, the time is just not right for Ziggy (and the Spiders from Mars). The worst part about Shinjuku that day, was that I actually broke down and asked a station guy how to get to the bus terminal, since I was in a hurry, yet I still managed to get horribly lost. Ugh, I hate that place!

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