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Well, not much happened today. We left on this day. But getting
to the airport was somewhat of an adventure. We went over to the
Shinjuku train station, which is the main station in Tokyo and we happened
to be staying right next to it. We went to the JR line platform to
take the train, but there was no train to the airport like their website
said. We had checked the previous evening for times. But somehow
Tam got out of the gentlemen working at the ticket booth that we needed to
go to another subway stop to catch the train. So we went over
there. Still no train. In Japan, there is the public JR train
line and these private trains run by companies. The private trains are
run by the large corporations and are used to move people to and from their
offices. They often have their own train stops. Tam wasn't
convinced on taking this. He wished to take the JR lines, but I
convinced him to try this. We caught the next train to the
airport. I took about 1 hour, 45 minutes. We showed up a little
after 12 for our 3 o'clock flight. We checked in and wandered the
airport mall for a little while. I tried to get rid of my Japanese
coins and buy postcards. Then we boarded our flight home. Just
like our flight over, it was pretty empty, but a little more crowded.
I think they moved over people from another flight to our flight. I
still got my own row, well, four seats for myself. The flight home
took just over 9 hours.
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To fill up the rest of this page, I will share my thoughts of Japan.
The first thing I noticed in Japan was their fashion. They have a most
eccentric and colorful fashion. I especially noticed the shoes.
Their shoes tended to be quite colorful and varied. Many different
styles of shoes. Next, I noticed that people are always on the
move. They rarely stop and lounge around. It is an endless
stream of people. Something like 8.5 million people like in about a
220 sq. mile area. 12 million plus in all of Tokyo and its surrounding
area suburbs. People walk quickly too. Way faster than I
do. Tam kept up well, but not me.
Men always wear suits and people do their jobs well, no matter how low it
is. In America, I think your job performance is correlated by the
amount of money you make. In Japan, everyone does their job well, down
to the lowest janitor. People are very polite, of course, but everyone
knows that. Whenever you buy something, there is a little money tray
and they put your change in it and lift it up while bowing and saying thank
you. That honesty thing pervades everywhere. One can buy beer/cigarettes from vending
machines on the street. There is no one checking IDs, but there is a much stronger sense
of discipline and obeying authority in Japan(or in most countries) than in the US.
Now for the women. I was sorely disappointed. My eyes were in constant pain. Many of the women
just weren't attractive. To be shallow and critical, I will say many of them were buck-toothed and had
rather large calves and all looked like they were 12. Korean women are way more attractive! But I think it is a regional thing. I am sure
if I had gone to another city like Yokohama, I might have better luck. But for this trip, I had to say the most
attractive women were on the Korean Air flight!
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