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My current liquidity amounts to 312 yen, which buys me at Narita twenty minutes of Internet and a very small soft drink, so this will be short. Did remarkably little on Boxing Day: five hours by train up the west coast of Taiwan, which is essentially a single city, and then the sky was too grey and dismal to make it worth going up Taipei 101 again.

I've followed [livejournal.com profile] rezendi's itinerary in Tokyo fairly closely: train to Asakusabashi by way of Chiba City -- the sky was the colour of a particularly tacky cocktail, peach-melba sunset fading to curacao evening. Next day, the Meiji shrine (wonderful calm, wooden buildings utterly devoid of bright-turquoise ceramic rooftop dragons in a dense artificial forest), a Yamanote trip one stop east done on a west-bound train to see all Tokyo, the views (including Fujiyama at sunset) from both towers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building One, sushi in Ginza, refrained from vastly over-running my credit card limit buying second-hand camera lenses in Akihabara (somebody with a complete Canon collection must have recently died), back to the hotel and so to bed. The weather's been gorgeous in a sort of freeze-dried winter way; bright blue skies, bright sun, temperature about five degrees.

Today, every museum in Tokyo is shut, so I wandered around Ueno Park and admired ducks, shrines, doorways, the six gigantic, reputedly-fantastic and very shut museums, cormorants, ancient burial mounds, the fifty-eight large copper lanterns given as gifts to Tokogawa, and the like, before heading to the airport. I plan, employment and liquidity permitting, to be back in Japan for Worldcon 2007, and to see more then, if it's open.

I am about to spend eighteen hours on flights and in airports. I hope, my readers, that you all have more interesting times than I in the next eighteen hours.

Date: 2005-12-29 08:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annafdd.livejournal.com
Right! I had forgotten all about the WorldCon in Tokyo. I mean to be there myself, life permitting.

Date: 2005-12-29 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jojomojo.livejournal.com
I am disappointed. You should by now have been kidnapped by a cybernetic Yank and shanghai'd into a mission to hack into Intel's orbital mainframe, by way of Turkey.

I plan to spend the next 18 hours working, sleeping, painting D&D miniatures and playing the odd computer game. It's your call as to whether that's any more exciting ;)

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