Day #1-2 - Airplanes, Convenience Stores, and Shinjuku

Day #1

So most of Day 1 was just on the plane coming to Japan. 14 hours. Of nothing. Well, it was kind of fun seeing what an ANA flight was all about and they really don't disappoint (although comparing business class to economy is like comparing American service to Japanese service... (Note: In Japan, they are taught that the customer is God... well, I think you get the picture)). Anyway, as promised: VIDEO TIME.



ANA Flight Food <3 Yum. Rice was cooked perfectly (none of that dry crap) and the eel and beef for delicious (preferred the beef to the eel... is that cause I'm from America?) Sorry bout the sound... planes are loud. Yeah, and playing with FlipVideo so enjoy some Erasure.

So after we got off the plane, we rode the "limousine" bus all the way to Shinjuku-Nishi (a good 2 hours cause of traffic... and its NOT a limousine bus, its just a regular bus sorry to say, Lol). And that was basically Day 1 (well, there was the dinner, but that took FOREVER and my parents were driving me NUTS so I'm just going to omit that for your sake. You're welcome.)



Day#2

So today we basically walked all around Shinjuku and checked into my Oakhouse room where I will be staying for the next couple months.

I think one of the things I really learned today was just how much the American Dollar sucks. It's 88yen to $1 (this is the exchange rate at Travelex) and while that may seem like a lot of yen, compared to the 120yen to $1 years ago, its quite the fall. Ouch. But we traded in $3000 for about 266000 yen so I would be set for the next couple weeks. Or week. Haha, just kidding parents...



Visited a Japanese Convenience store. So just walked around and taped everything :)

After that, we went walking around Shinjuku, went to travelex and after checking into my room, we went to go buy a plug converter at the Odakyu HALC, bic camera place and go eat at this nice Jap-Korean place on the 8th floor. The department store was HUGE and about 4 levels of it were dedicated basically to technology crap like cameras, cellphones, computers, washer/dryers... you name it, it was there.

But I think the most interesting thing I found was these weird little earbuds... well you can just see for yourself.



...Pills... LOL.

But overall it was just one heck of an interesting day. After I got over being totally embarrassed by how much I sucked at Japanese, it was actually a lot easier to navigate and understand what people were saying to me. I did my whole house rental process in Japanese :D *pats back* That was my little moment of zen today.

More about where I live later. I'll take you guys on a tour of the route from Oakhouse Guesthouse to the Nakano-shimbashi station which is west of Shinjuku.



Thanks Coca-cola.

For now... jya ne :)