Shinkansen Shuffle
I want this trip to go on forever! I'm having the time of my life. This morning we are taking the Shinkansen to Kurashiki, the prefecture where I will spend the next full week.
My friend Jill and I had the scare of our lives on the boarding platform before we boarded the train. We both had stopped to take pictures of the train and when we looked up, our group had disappeared. DOH! We both sprinted for the train and once aboard, our group was nowhere to be seen. Great. Just great.
We were pretty sure that we had boarded the right train, after all there were only two on the platform, so that gave us a fifty-fifty chance of being correct. After sprinting around the train cars for ten minutes, we finally found the group. Both Jill and I were totally relieved, but a little bummed at our group for just bailing on us like that on the platform. Nothing is ever my fault. Yeah, right.
BTW, our group's guide told us that the train could reach speeds up to 250 kph. That's about 160 mph. This train hauls. Our trip should take us about three and half hours from Tokyo Station, with one transfer in Yokohama. I'm actually writing this blog entry on my Treo while riding the train.
We can see Fujisan, or Mt. Fuji, on the right side of the train. It is, like everything else I have seen, in a word, awesome! I actually had a great view of Fujisan this morning while eating breakfast from the top floor of our hotel.
Here are some musings and observations of mine from my time in Tokyo.
• It's very important to remember that the traffic comes from the right, when crossing the street.
• A lot of Japanese people smoke-cough, cough
• An equal amount of Japanese people are fixated on their cell phones-I'm not sure exactly what they're doing, I think their texting their friends
• Americans are very loud tourists
• For a major metropolitan area, there are not many garbage cans on the streets in Tokyo
• It's really odd being in a country where you look like everybody else, but it's painfully obvious that you don't speak the language that well
• Did I mention that Americans are really loud tourists?
How are you all? I hope you're all behaving for Mr. B. What do you think of the pictures? Post away! Let me know what you're all up to.
That's all for today.
Mr. S
My friend Jill and I had the scare of our lives on the boarding platform before we boarded the train. We both had stopped to take pictures of the train and when we looked up, our group had disappeared. DOH! We both sprinted for the train and once aboard, our group was nowhere to be seen. Great. Just great.
We were pretty sure that we had boarded the right train, after all there were only two on the platform, so that gave us a fifty-fifty chance of being correct. After sprinting around the train cars for ten minutes, we finally found the group. Both Jill and I were totally relieved, but a little bummed at our group for just bailing on us like that on the platform. Nothing is ever my fault. Yeah, right.
BTW, our group's guide told us that the train could reach speeds up to 250 kph. That's about 160 mph. This train hauls. Our trip should take us about three and half hours from Tokyo Station, with one transfer in Yokohama. I'm actually writing this blog entry on my Treo while riding the train.
We can see Fujisan, or Mt. Fuji, on the right side of the train. It is, like everything else I have seen, in a word, awesome! I actually had a great view of Fujisan this morning while eating breakfast from the top floor of our hotel.
Here are some musings and observations of mine from my time in Tokyo.
• It's very important to remember that the traffic comes from the right, when crossing the street.
• A lot of Japanese people smoke-cough, cough
• An equal amount of Japanese people are fixated on their cell phones-I'm not sure exactly what they're doing, I think their texting their friends
• Americans are very loud tourists
• For a major metropolitan area, there are not many garbage cans on the streets in Tokyo
• It's really odd being in a country where you look like everybody else, but it's painfully obvious that you don't speak the language that well
• Did I mention that Americans are really loud tourists?
How are you all? I hope you're all behaving for Mr. B. What do you think of the pictures? Post away! Let me know what you're all up to.
That's all for today.
Mr. S
posted by Mr. S at 12:06 AM
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