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So much for I'll finish writing at home. Sorry, and thank you Debbie for yelling at me.
I went out and got dinner from the 7-11. I got a little pizza thing and a riceball, which is exactly what it sounds like. It was not very exciting. But after I ate in my hostel I went out for a walk and found this famous street but all the shops were closing down, which was fine. I tried finding it again later in the week but failed so I never got to go to all the cheesy tourist shops which is really no big whoop. I took a bunch of pictures and went to bed.
The next day I just went exploring all over the city. I bought a metro pass, but let me talk about the metro. One of the podcasts I listen to called the Tokyo subway the most complicated in the world, and they were so right. First off, there are 3 subways systems in Tokyo, two are public and one is a series of private lines. One of the public lines is more of a 'regional rail' type thing, though it still goes to many of the same stops as the regular public subway. And my pass only worked on the public subway lines. There were a few times that I went to go on a train and it wouldn't let me through the turnstyle. Oh well.
I saw a bunch of stuff, though a lot of things were closed because this time of year is special for the Japanese. Some of the big tourist attractions are these old shrines and in Japan people go to the shrines to pray on and around new year. So it was a little off putting the first time I walked up to a shrine, me with my camera and the Japanese going to pray. But it made it a little cooler because it seemed more authentic. The shrines were cool, but similar to what we have in Korea. The architecture was not very exciting or noteworthy and there were not as many high rises as there are in Korea.
I went out and got dinner from the 7-11. I got a little pizza thing and a riceball, which is exactly what it sounds like. It was not very exciting. But after I ate in my hostel I went out for a walk and found this famous street but all the shops were closing down, which was fine. I tried finding it again later in the week but failed so I never got to go to all the cheesy tourist shops which is really no big whoop. I took a bunch of pictures and went to bed.
The next day I just went exploring all over the city. I bought a metro pass, but let me talk about the metro. One of the podcasts I listen to called the Tokyo subway the most complicated in the world, and they were so right. First off, there are 3 subways systems in Tokyo, two are public and one is a series of private lines. One of the public lines is more of a 'regional rail' type thing, though it still goes to many of the same stops as the regular public subway. And my pass only worked on the public subway lines. There were a few times that I went to go on a train and it wouldn't let me through the turnstyle. Oh well.
I saw a bunch of stuff, though a lot of things were closed because this time of year is special for the Japanese. Some of the big tourist attractions are these old shrines and in Japan people go to the shrines to pray on and around new year. So it was a little off putting the first time I walked up to a shrine, me with my camera and the Japanese going to pray. But it made it a little cooler because it seemed more authentic. The shrines were cool, but similar to what we have in Korea. The architecture was not very exciting or noteworthy and there were not as many high rises as there are in Korea.