My first taste of Japan

So far it looks amazing.

Tokyo, which we just caught a bus through was huge, incredibly developed with highways plaiting themseles up, down, over and under an absolutly massive city, with highrises as far as the eye can see with little shopping districts brightly illuminated way over there and just underneath the highways we were travelling on.

We took a bus from the airport to Yokohama (sooooo expensive $35 aus each,，apparently a taxi to our destination would have been like $300), it was silent except for us. The bus was eriely quiet, so were the people on it. While we chatted tried to learn/teach japanese and laughed at japlish signs and ogling the sights of Tokyo.

The bus was pretty cool, quite spacious and very organised and efficient for transporting lots of luggage, which was very useful. Very clean as well.

I bought noodle flavoured tea!!!!!

When we arrived in Yokohama we changed from a bus to a train. We had to walk with our luggage through a shopping mall to get there. There were a whole heap of girls in their school uniforms, 10:30 at night on a saturday!!! (apparently its cool to wear that stuff) There were also a lot of guys and girls in yokata, which is a semi formal kimono with less material, because there was some kind of minor celebration and a lot japanese people wearing japanese clothes, which look a bit different from what you see in Aus.

Kana`s mum had heaps of food waiting for uｓ、like a miso soup，reminiscient of chicken soup，tuna sashimi (raw fish) and inargi and ngiri (different kinds of rice balls) and japanese beer and a few kinds of sake (booze).

There place is very unusal to me its smaller than I am used to in Australia but larger than I was expecting thanks to numerous warnings from Kana and her mother. It is jam packed with stuff!
It is very cool here and Kana`s family is very nice!

My phone with international roaming on it just dosnt work here!!! I am very suprised and very disappointed. I will have to get a japanese phone for myself... :D


Janei
(catch ya, in japanese)