Tokyo

Well, the picture post appeared to work, so I may as well continue with the whole blogging issue thingy.

Today I have mainly been exploring Tokyo with my guide, Toshiko.

While I remember, must say about - hmm dammit forgotten again. Will come back to that.

So anyway have been pootling round Tokyo, and been to many more shrines and the like, also today I have been to the 45th floor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Building which is pretty darn high and you get an excellent view of the whole city - and my ears popped twice on the way up in the lift - which took not long at all to get up there at all. I`ve also been to Edo Museum (which, history buffs - is what Tokyo was called before being called Tokyo) It was mainly full of old Japanese stuff which was a bit dull, mainly cos I couldn`t understand anything. Oh well, you gotta go to these places I suppose - it could`ve been worse I could`ve been at work. I also went to some other shrine and they were filming something which was pretty cool as have never been on a film set before. I`d love to tell you all about what they were filming, but suffice to say it a) was in Japanese (are you seeing a recurring problem here with understanding anything?) and b) wasn`t dodgy Japanese Porn so I quickly lost interest (again) I know I`m so uncultured aren`t I?

Tomorrow I have planned a trip into Tokyo by myself which will be a laugh as about 95 percent of the signs are in Japanese script (on the subway that is - though I have been trying to pay attention today to what has been going on. The subway is one mad place and coupled with my complete lack of Japanese reading ability will be a hilarious disaster I warrent. Oh well gotta be done - my aim is to go to the electronics district and to one of the giant shopping malls. I do mean giant as well by the way far bigger than anything that I have seen in London for example.

Anyway I hope this isn`t the last post that I make - if it is for a while then you will know that I am lost on the underground - also there is the above ground stations and the subway ones which aren`t interchangeable though they often have the same station names!! genius whoever thought that one up!

Anyway will try and post some more pictures for you guys though that is proving one of the more difficult things to do, well time consuming at any rate.