Tokyo a success
Dec. 29th, 2005 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackMy 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.
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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.
I've followed
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.
