いま ときょう に います。。。I'm In Tokyo Now

(Posted about 10 pm JST - Monday August 6th)

So on a whim I decided to take a short vacation to Tokyo before my brother comes back...



Luckly for me, although booked at the last possible second, the JALways flight was very empty with just as much stewardeses as passengers...


I heard from my brother and my friend Ats that it would be VERY hot and humid in Japan...and the second you stepped off the plan it was as if you walked into a hot shower room...

Tokyo is a multi faceted and multi layered city, and seeing the perpetual intertwining of steel and concrete overpasses, roads, bridges, walkways and waterways is a perfect example of how connected...but how very different all the people and areas and traditions of this city coexist...
My room and the view out after the 1hr 50min ride from Narita to Ikebukuro's Sunshine City...

While walking around, I passed by this park with the most unreal sound I've ever heard...think buzzing locusts...ON STEROIDS!!! Super loud...like a pack of 2 stroke Yamaha RD400s revving up to 10,000rpm!!! I think it was these LARGE moth looking things...

Had some awesome Miso Ramen at Kairaku...the bamboo shoots were the best I've ever eaten, chewy but crunchy at the same time...