The Day before yesterday was quite possibly the worst day of my travels so far. Jesus it was horrible.
So we decided to go to Tokyo to see Akihabara, the Imperial Gardens and some outdoor shopping place with a name that I could never hope to remember. Getting there was OK I guess but the problem was that it was friggin raining so I couldn’t really take that many pictures. So now I have nothing to really show for my day spent in Tokyo except for a few pictures of the Imperial Garden in Tokyo.
The Imperial Garden was so underwhelming that I will not even subject you to looking at pictures of huge lawns. And then I lost all interest in taking pictures when I saw a bunch of weeds growing in the garden. I would have thought that since this was the Emperor’s garden that it would be the best damn garden in Japan but nope there were friggin weeds! eh.
Next we decided to walk to Akihabara. it was about a mile and a half. We wanted to, you know, experience some of the city. So we walked the mile and a half and then we got to Akihabara. Everything looked great but it was pouring rain so no pictures. There were two things for me in Akihabara.
The first was I got to see two all-in-one PC’s that are nowhere to be found in the US and are quite amazing. These are the NEC Valuestar and the Fujitsu something or another. The Fujitsu was OK but the NEC Valuestar was amazing. If that thing was in the US I would never have gotten an iMac.
The second interesting thing was when my girlfriend and I accidentally walked into an anime porn rental store or maybe they were selling the crap. Either way it was horribly labeled in bright colors and connected to a vintage video games store. I went up to the second level hoping to find Chrono Cross (a 9 year old PlayStation game), but no I was assaulted by anime porn. Wonderful. I should have known when I saw a friggin poster with some girl in a uniform with her underwear half off. Eh oh well. The strange thing is that the place was labeled PC/DVD how the hell was i supposed to know what it was? eh, oh well that’s Japan.
Then we went to that outdoor market, in the rain. It would have been really nice if it wasn’t pouring rain. It was just like a Taiwan day market except everything was double or triple the price and it was cleaner. hmm where have I said that before? eh whatever
Now here is the friggin horrible part of the trip. We decided to head back at a time when it was the rush hour. Usually rush hour is busy but this was three thousand time worse. I spent most of the trip with a fat man’s ass in my crotch it was……wonderful…… I thought I had experienced rush hour when I was in Taipei but this was different. the train was already packed when we left Ueno station. When we got to Kawasaki it was packed and like 30 people left the train car and then maybe 50 got on. At this point the people at the door had to push back with all their might so that they could fit behind the door to let it close (this was how the fat man’s ass got mashed into me). And then when the doors close the people let go and their faces were mashed up against the glass on the door. So this was horrible because the stops were so friggin far apart. So I had a fat man’s ass in my crotch for about 20 minutes.
Then! after all this crap we decided to get Sushi at the Yokohama station (my girlfriend had sushi). And it sucked! can you believe it? Crappy sushi in Japan, where Sushi originated. The sushi was cut wrong, it was very thick and had a crapload of wasabi under the fish. so that was bad. I had eel with rice and that was passable. I would expect Japanese Japanese food to be better than what we get in the US but nope so far it was not been. I will see tonight when we go to another place tonight. But this is like getting bad buffalo wings in Buffalo New York, oh wait I have had bad Buffalo wings in Buffalo.
So yeah worst traveling day ever. If you are ever in Japan do not ride the subway between like 4:30PM and 6:30PM. jeez worst day ever……
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