Well that was comedy.
oh yeah I remebered what I was going to say last time - better do that
know before I forget again.
Was going to say what long hours the Japanese work - mentally so.
Mikio has quite short hours and only works a 11 and a half hour day!
Yasuo on the other hand works from 9 in the morning till 1am and no
thats not a good 4 hour day but 16 hours!!! Kenji (their other son)
does a similar thing. Madness I tells you. followed by about 4-5 hours
sleep before repeating it all again. What really made me aware of this
was sitting on the tube watching all the people in a permanent state
of exhaustion. They have this amazing knack of sleeping on the tube,
not just when sat down, but sleeping on their feet trying to catnap so
that they can function (or so I would imagine) Sitting on the tube is
like sitting amongst a load of zombies - well not the flesh eating
type, more the lolling listless type. That was what I wanted to say -
it`s just slightly unnerving that`s all plus they work far too hard -
I guess is my point.
Anyway back to today.
Got to my first stop ok, following a change of trains - once you get
used to it its actually ok, but I`m glad that I had maps in my pocket
of both under and over ground routes.
So I went to Akihabara to check out some electrical stores - turned
out that I only checked out one though. I`m not sure that you would
comprehend how big this store was though. I can`t really think of how
to get it across. Suffice to say that it was 8 floors, each floor
bigger than a big thing - certainly bigger than oxford HMV anyway. The
space devoted to ipods and accessories was bigger than most shops you
can think of. I like electronic stuff, but I spent 2 hours working
from bottom to top, finishing at lunchtime so I ate lunch on their
restaurant floor (not the actual floor of one restaurant as it sounds,
but in one of the approx 20 restaurants on that floor) If that helps
give you an impression of size.
Some things are pretty good value, whilst some is just the same as
here. A PS3 will set you back about 220 pounds so pretty cheap
considering they are selling on ebay for 370 or the one that I saw
was. Whilst what I wanted, a nikon digital SLR is about the same price
- dammit! So no new camera for me :-(
If anyone wants anything then ask me and I can find out for you - I
remember that PSPs were 80 quid or so.
Anyway after lunch I took more tubes to Ginza which is the well posh
end of town, and looked at all the big expensive stores that I don`t
want anything from - ie all the designer stores. Was big and
impressive though.
Then went to the Sony Store which was cool. Loads of good stuff there,
Blue ray is pretty cool and very sharp, they were demonstrating it vs
DVD quallity. Rob (and any other geeks who may be reading) They were
also showcasing FFXIII on a PS3 on a 52" HDTV. It looks ace BTW.
So then I went to Shinjunku and checked out a couple of the big
department stores - mainly dull selling clothes and perfume etc but
again impressive in their bigness. Then as darkness fell I went back
to the Metropolitan Building again and had expensive beer and expresso
looking out at Tokyo in the dark. Man its the biggest place with the
most skyscrapers that I`ve ever seen. I tried to take some pictures
but I doubt that they will do it justice - I`ll get them off my camera
and post them if they came out after this. Just take my word for it
you think that there are some small houses and the like until you
realise that the small ones are also massive buildings, only 6 or 7
stories high rather than the 40 plus of the rest of them.
Anyway, bored now and tired its midnight and time to hit the hay I reckon.
Night Jon boy.
Night
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