Learning to travel on the first day of meetings
Traveling around Tokyo with the mass transit system was an experience. Here's a few hints, books, and links to help a bit. A useful map to find ones way around Tokyo is Tokyo City Atlas: A Bilingual Guide (3rd Ed.) (Paperback). It saved me a lot of time, trying to figure out which area I'm looking for, and which station stations to get from point A to point B. Another useful link for traveling is http://www.hyperdia.com/. It helps a person map out the stations and which lines to take, with alternate routes, time estimates, and amount of money you'll spend.
Anyways, for the Tokyo subway newbies, note this, it is possible to accidently walk from one station to another. Accidently walked a mile to the wrong station. It also didn't help that there were 3 stations near the hotel, and we weren't sure which one would be best to take to our very first meeting. *eyes spin* Good thing, didn't have to ride during the "sardine" time, where everyone literally is packed in tight, and you can see faces/bodies pressed up against the windows. Crazy.
Starting from 11 AM to about 11 PM, we were meeting various people. Lunch was with our interpreter, at this really good tonkatsu restaurant. It was in the Tokyo Animation building, on the third floor (can't remember the name at the moment, but I'll post it here when I find it.). I wish I went back there to eat before leaving Tokyo. Ah, well.
In the evening, we got lucky and got to observe a symposium, and our translator was nice enough to help me out with my notes. It was an interesting lecture held at International Digital Hollywood University in Akihabara. For those who are interested in studying abroad, and want to go into animation, they are looking for students.
Dinner ended up being at around 9 or 10 PM, so we didn't get back to the hotel room until midnight. Talk about a long day. It was definitely fun tho. Got to learn a lot of stuff!
Anyways, for the Tokyo subway newbies, note this, it is possible to accidently walk from one station to another. Accidently walked a mile to the wrong station. It also didn't help that there were 3 stations near the hotel, and we weren't sure which one would be best to take to our very first meeting. *eyes spin* Good thing, didn't have to ride during the "sardine" time, where everyone literally is packed in tight, and you can see faces/bodies pressed up against the windows. Crazy.
Starting from 11 AM to about 11 PM, we were meeting various people. Lunch was with our interpreter, at this really good tonkatsu restaurant. It was in the Tokyo Animation building, on the third floor (can't remember the name at the moment, but I'll post it here when I find it.). I wish I went back there to eat before leaving Tokyo. Ah, well.
In the evening, we got lucky and got to observe a symposium, and our translator was nice enough to help me out with my notes. It was an interesting lecture held at International Digital Hollywood University in Akihabara. For those who are interested in studying abroad, and want to go into animation, they are looking for students.
Dinner ended up being at around 9 or 10 PM, so we didn't get back to the hotel room until midnight. Talk about a long day. It was definitely fun tho. Got to learn a lot of stuff!